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Gold From God's Mint 



— BY- 



E. A. FERGERSON 



This book was gathered up by Brother Fergerson, 
from his various writings, just before his death; so it is the 
last ever to come from his pen. 



"HEBEING DEAD, YET SPEAKETH' 




GOD'S REVIVALIST OFFICE 

RINGGOLD. YOUNG AND CHANNING STS. 

CINCINNATI. OHIO 



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Copyrighted, 1914, by God's Revivalist Office. 






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INTRODUCTION 

"He being dead, yet speaketh" — through the 
many sermons which reached multitudes, who 
now Hve to testify to full salvation as their re- 
sult; and through the written words which came 
from his pen. These words regarding the au- 
thor of this book, Bro. E. A. Fergerson, will, we 
are certain, be echoed by all who knew him. 

-Of the words of Brother Fergerson, none will 
be more appreciated, nor, we feel, do more good, 
than those in this book, the latest and last work 
for us to ever have from its beloved author. 

''Gold from God's Mint" is composed of prose 
and poetry, gathered from various sources 
but very nearly the whole deals with 
that great theme so pre-eminent in the Scrip- 
tures; that theme of the utmost importance to 
mankind, but so neglected by the great majority, 
and even scorned and jeered at by others — the 
theme of ''holiness unto the Lord.'' 

God says that without holiness no man shall 
see Him. Brother Fergerson accepted this truth 
with all his soul, and preached it up and down 
the land, winter and summer, without ceasing, 
with all his strength. Such an ardent advocate 
of the theme as was he has a right to speak with 

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authority upon it. If you believe in holiness, but 
know not how to receive the Blessing, take some 
of this "gold from God's mint'' and be enriched 
for time and eternity. If you do not believe, 
read this book with open heart and unprejudiced 
mind, and have your disbelief turned to belief. 
Holiness is a subject which ascends to Heaven, 
and embraces the universe; it takes in ALL — its 
sweep is world-wide in extent, endless in dura- 
tion, and priceless in value. Neither you nor I 
can afford to live out our lives here regardless 
of holiness, lest coming suddenly the Lord find 
us sleeping; then, the question — Are you rich 
in heavenly treasure? Herein is God's store- 
house opened up — read, ponder, pray, act. 

At the end of this volume will be found 
the mightiest sermon Brother Fergerson ever 
preached, the one which terrified sinners by its 
horrors; and comforted God's children by its 
contrasts — we refer to the sermon on Hell. 
This sermon alone makes the book a valuable 
one, especially for the unsaved. 

"GOLD from God's Mint"— be not satisfied 
with baser, less valuable things; remember that 
"God has His best things for the few who dare 
to stand the test; He has His second best for 
those who will' not have the best." 



CONTENTS 

Introduction 

Preface 

Poem. 

Late Autumn 5 

CHAPTER I. 
Without Faith It Is Impossible to Please Him ... 7 

CHAPTER 11. 

Rewards and Punishments 10 

Poem 
Thanksgiving" Praise 15 

CHAPTER III. 
Errors Respecting the Bible Doctrine of Holiness IT- 
CHAPTER iv; 
Holiness Obtainable Now and Not Hereafter . . 27 

CHAPTER V. 
The Beauty of Holiness 31 

CHAPTER VI. 
"Wesley vs. Modem Writers « 45 

CHAPTER VII. 
'^Without Shedding of Blood Is No Remission" 53 

CHAPTER VIII. 
'^Sanctified by the Holy Ghost" 60 

CHAPTER IX. 
Holiness the Secret of Not Palling 63 

CHAPTER X. 
A Plea for the Simple Religion of Our Fathers. . 67 

CHAPTER XI. 
The Living Word of Cod 71 

CHAPTER XIL 
Holiness, God's Theme 80 

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Conte:nts via 

CHAPTER XIII. 
Gold from God's Mint 86 

CHAPTER XIV. 
A Prayer for Healthy Christians 90 

CHAPTER XV. 
What Is Sin? , 94 

CHAPTER XVI. 
'^iow Shall We Escape If We Neglect So Great 

Salvation?" 100 

CHAPTER XVII. 

Placing the Standard too High 105 

CHAPTER XVIII,. 
A Character Study of Jacob 109 

CHAPTER XIX. 
Seeing God 123 

CHAPTER XX. 
The Sin Against the Holy Ghost 131 

CHAPTER XXI. 
A Visit to Whitefield's Tomb 138 

CHAPTER XXn. 

A Note of Warning 141 

CHAPTER XXIII. 

Signs of the Times « 146 

CHAPTER XXIV. 
God 's Remedy for Sin 150 

CHAPTER XXV. 

*'The Winds Were Contrary" 155 

Poem 

Redeemed by the Blood 158 

Appendix 
Sermon on Hell 159 



PREFACE 

This book, coming, as it does, after the death 
of the author, will be to all who knew Brother 
Fergerson as a voice from Heaven. He was one 
so lovable in nature, so sympathetic, so* friendly, 
but above all so given up to God and the advance- 
ment of His cause, that all who knew him will 
rejoice to have this message from him. 

If it were not thiat we know God's ways are 
best; that, although we cannot always compre- 
hend them, they are ever loving and kind; we 
would have failed to see why, seemingly in the 
prime of his vigor and usefulness, our brother 
was taken from God's great, needy harvest-field 
and from the many who loved him. But realiz- 
ing that "all things work together for good" to 
God's children, we know that even this was 
meant for blessing to the wife and mother, the 
children and the many friends left on this side 
of the separating veil between the Here* and the 
There. 

May this book prove as great a force for full 
salvation as were the sermons and other writ- 
ings of its author ; and so help speedily to bring 
the day when our Lord shall return to claim His 
own, is the wish of 

One; o"^ His Friends. 
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LATE AUTUMN 

Late Autumn folds her mantle softly o'er heath and 

wood and plain; 
The rocking woodlands sigh and croon a soft and 

sad refrain; 
The russet woodbine hangs like tresses over porch 

and wall, 
And from the thicket comes the bobwhite's plaintive 

call. 

The Summer's gone and faded is the gorgeous, leafy 

maze, 
The languid air hangs like gossamer veil o'er dreamy 

haze; 
And far beyond the sleeping fields whose work is done, 
On richest couch of gold, lies down the Autumn's 

saffron Sun. 



CHAPTER I. 

Without Faith It Is Impossibi^je; to 
PivEase; Him. 

(Heb. II : 6.) 

In passing from creation and providence into 
the domain of redemption, it is pre-eminently 
all faith. 

Does it concern creation? "Through faith 
we understand that the worlds were made by 
the word of God." Is it of God's existence we 
inquire? We must receive it by faith; we "must 
believe that He is."*' Is it of providential govern- 
ment? What but faith can accept the statement 
in its beautiful simplicity that "the very hairs 
of your head are all numbered/' and that "the 
sparrow shall not fall upon the ground without 
your Father''? Is it of preserving the world 
created? Faith alone compasses the problem that 
He "upholdeth all things by the word of His 
power." 

The doctrine of the incarnation must be re- 
ceived by faith alone. 

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The gift of the Son of God to become the 
Redeemer of the world is a proposition which can 
only be received by faith. 

No promise of grace, from the beginning of 
the spiritual life to our entrance into Heaven, 
can avail for any one except through faith. 

In short, Christ is "made unto us wisdom, 
and righteousness, and sanctification, and re- 
demption,'^ by our exercise of faith in Him. 

We are saved by faith, we are sanctified by 
faith, we are healed by faith, we are kept by 
faith, and "this is the victory that overcomes 
the world, even, our faith." 

"Whatsoever is not of faith is sin." The 
answer of Jesus to the seeking soul was, "Ac- 
cording to thy faith be it unto thee/' To an- 
other, "Thy faith hath made thee whole." 

The principle is one of universal application, 
no matter what we are seeking. 

It was operative under the ministry of our 
Lord and His Apostles, and it is the same to-day. 
Hence the statement is not surprising that the 
unbelief of the people hindered His "mighty 
works." (Mark 6: 5, 6.)^ 



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The sin that circumscribes God is an ancient 
one. It was charged upon the IsraeHtes in the 
wilderness that "they turned back and tempted 
God and limited the Holy One of Israel." (Ps. 

78:41.). 



CHAPTER 11. 

Rl^WARDS AND PUNISHMi:NTS. 

The greatest question in this world, or that 
which is to come, is the one that involves our 
misery or happiness here and hereafter. And 
that which makes the consideration of it so great 
is the supposition of our happiness and misery 
hereafter depending upon our actions here. As 
certainly as that virtue, honor and obedience are 
rewarded here, and that vice, dishonor and dis- 
obedience bring punishment here, so certainly 
will they bring the same in the hereafter. It is an 
inevitable law that, ^^As a man soweth, that shall 
he also reap." In this world all that we enjoy 
and a large portion of what we suffer is largely 
in our own power. While we do not believe 
that all our sufferings are due to our own follies, 
yet we have found by experience, example and in- 
struction, that if we go in the ways of sin and 
disobedience, poverty, and sickness, and untimely 
death will follow. On the other hand, we have 
found that the effect of righteousness "is peace, 

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and rest, and quietness, and assurance forever/' 
The "statutes of the Lord are right, the judg- 
ments of the Lord are true, and in the keeping 
of them there is great reward." 

We not only receive our rewards here, but 
when Jesus comes we will be rewarded for the 
things done in the body, "according to that we 
have done, whether it be good or bad." Dionysius 
caused musicians to play before him, and prom- 
ised them a great reward; but when they came 
for it, he told them that they had already received 
it in their hopes of it. God does not disappoint 
His servants thus; but Christ says, "My reward 
is with Me, to give to every man according as 
His work shall be." "To him that soweth right- 
eousness shall be a sure reward." In Luke 6: 35 
we are told that if we love our enemies and do 
good, our reward shall be great. 

If it were certain that our future interests in 
no way depended on our present behavior, then 
reasonable men would not be further concerned 
about their present life and deeds. But since 
men are born with a sub-consciousness, a fear 
and dread of the future, they are anxious and in- 
quiring and unsettled in their minds and con- 
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they are all right. God shows them the contrary, 
and says, "There is no rest for the wicked." 

Hence, after all that is said and done, the fact 
remains that there is a concern, a dread, a fear, 
a foreboding or anxiety about the future life 
in the breast of every man and woman of Adam's 
lost race. We are constituted that way; God 
made us thus. On this principle of truth our 
government is based. There is a law in this 
country that protects the home, the honor, the 
virtue of the people if used rightly ; while, on the 
other hand, the same law that protects the one 
will punish the other. As truly as the human 
heart anticipates joy and favor with honor, upon 
right doing, so truly does it anticipate dread and 
fear and punishment upon wrong doing. No man 
can alter the stern fact of punishment. As well 
try to roll back the giant billows that dash in 
from the sea when a mighty storm is on; as 
well try to grasp the lightning's flash and 
change its course, as to try to turn aside the 
fact of punishment according to God's Word. 

The little acorn contains the bud, the leaf, 
the towering tree in embryo ; and I am sure when 
I plant it, that it will produce them and nothing 
else. So every act of our lives is embryonic, and 
according as it is right or wrong, it will surely 



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bring forth the flowers of joy, or the poisonous 
plants of sorrow. I do not believe in eternal pun- 
ishment because I delight in it. I would destroy 
faith in it if I could; I would fill Hell to the 
brim \vith doubts, and cast aside forever the 
thought if I could, but I can not. It is the re- 
coil of every crime, and the back stroke is in 
proportion to the original blow. 

As one has said, "Let the fairest star be 
selected like a beauteous island in the vast shore- 
less sea of the azure heavens, as the future home 
of criminals from the earth, and let these possess 
whatever they most love, and all that is possible 
for God to bestow; let them be endowed with 
undying bodies, and with minds which shall for- 
ever retain their intellectual powers ; let no Savior 
ever press His claim upon them, no Holy Spirit 
visit them, no God reveal Himself to them, no 
Sabbath ever dawn upon them, no saint ever live 
among them, no prayer ever be heard within 
their bodies; but let society exist there forever, 
smitten only by the leprosy of hatred toward God, 
and with utter selfishness as its all-prevailing and 
eternal purpose ; then, as sure as the law of right- 
eousness exists, on which rests the Throne of 
God and the government of the universe, a society 
so constituted must work out for itself a hell of 



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solitary and bitter suffering, to which there is 
no limit except the capacity of a finite nature/' 
Alas ! the spirit which is without love to its God 
or neighbor, is already possessed with a power 
which must at least create for its own self-tor- 
ment, a worm that will never die, and a flame that 
can nevermore be quenched. No amount of rea- 
soning can change the fact of future punishment 
for the impenitent wicked who die in sin. 



THANKSGIVING PEAISE 

This is glad Thanksgiving Day, 

Praise Him ; 
He delights to hear thee say, 

"Praise Him;" 
Nothing need alarm thee, 
Doubts can never harm thee, 
Satan ne'er can charm thee, 

If you praise Him. 

Give Him thanks for blessings past, 

Praise Him ; 
Take a retrospective glance. 

Praise Him ; 
Idle moments buying, 
Soon we'll all be dying, 
You will not go sighing, 

If you praise Him. 

When the shadows thickly fall. 

Praise Him; 
Haste to tell thy Father all, 

Praise Him; 
Cast off all thy sorrow, 
Jesus keeps the sparrow. 
You'll have- peace to-morrow, 

If you praise Him. 

If you in His love abide. 

Praise Him ; 
When you in His shelter hide, 

Praise Him ; 
You must now remember, 
That He changes never, 
You may live forever. 

If you praise Him. 

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CHAPTER III. 

Errors Ri:spe:cting thd Bibi.^ Doctrine 
of houness. 

It seems that not a few people who claim to 
promulgate the doctrine of holiness fail to realize 
the exceeding disastrous effect it has on the 
Church when misapprehended or perverted truth 
is given out from the pulpit, whether it be theo- 
retical or practical. 

It is not our purpose (in this chapter) to deal 
with those who openly deny the doctrine of sancti- 
fication, but to consider some of the errors of those 
who profess to hold the doctrine, yet so vitiate 
the truth as to get no one into the experience. 

The first error of which I wish to speak is: 
Preaching holiness in a wholesale way, or to 
leave the impression that one is sanctified when 
he is converted. 

This form of doctrine is not more than 150 
years old; as many know, it had its origin with 
Count Zinzendorf, the founder and first bishop 

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of the Moravian Church. He spent two years 
in America, returning to England in 1743. He 

died at Herrnhut, May 9, 1760. 

Wesley was strongly allied to the Moravians 
and visited them at Herrnhut and conversed free- 
ly with them, but on account of their views on 
the subject of entire sanctification, finally with- 
drew from them. 

But what were Zinzendorf's real views on 
this subject? 

Mr. Wesley gives them as follows: "We are 
sanctified wholly the moment we are justified, 
and are neither more nor less holy to the day of 
our death; entire sanctification and entire justi- 
fication being in one and the same instant.'* 

In response to a question propounded by Mr. 
Wesley in regard to the state of a believer, Zin- 
zendorf says: "The moment he is justified he 
is sanctified." 

These views were resisted by Mr. Wesley 
all through his prosperous and successful life. 

I want the reader to note how nearly this 
doctrine accords with the modern preachers and 
writers of our day. 

From the ordinary pulpit of this day one 
would not infer that there is sin or depravity 
left in him who is born of God. 



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In fact, the modern preaching and teaching 
of the day would leave the impression that all 
the holiness there is, is imputed holiness. 

It is a sad comment on Methodism when we 
find the personnel of our preachers so thoroughly 
imbued with this doctrine and unconsciously 
(seemingly) they do not preach otherwise than 
that when one is converted that is all he can re- 
ceive in this life; and we know that they have 
been taught differently. 

Mr. Wesley, in refuting the doctrine (that 
one is sanctified when he is converted) said 
that it was a new doctrine and consequently 
false. "It was NEVER HEARD OF," he 
says, "for seventeen hundred years, never till it 
was discovered by Count Zinzendorf. I do not 
remember to have seen the least intimation of 
it, either in any ancient or modern writer, unless, 
perhaps, in some of the wild, ranting Antinom- 
ians.'' He opposed it as, in his judgment, "a 
mischievous doctrine" and "attended with the 
most FATAL CONSEQUENCES." How does 
that sound as compared with Mudge, Huntington 
and those of our preachers who do not believe in 
a work of grace in the heart subsequent to regen- 
eration? 

Mr. Wesley opposed the doctrine as UN- 



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SCRIPTURAL. He says : ^^There are in every 
person,^ even after he is justified, two contrary 
principles, nature and grace, termed by St. Paul 
the FLESH and the SPIRIT. Hence, although 
babes in Christ are sanctified, it is only in part. 
In a degree, according to the measure of their 
faith, they are spiritual; yet in a degree they are 
carnal.'' 

Dr. Whedon interpreted, or rather misinter- 
preted, these words as meaning simply a capacity 
for future sinning. No wonder Dr. Crane, on 
this point, said, "If this be the doctrine, we fully 
accept it." Well he may, for it was NOT the 
doctrine. 

Think of men like Whedon and Crane inter- 
preting Wesley's sermon on "Sin in believers" in 
such phraseology as the following: "Lust of the 
flesh," "corruption of the nature," "sin remain- 
ing," "inward sin," "the seed of all sin," "self- 
will," "pride," "carnal mind," "sinful tempers," 
"passion," "love of the world," "anger," "peev- 
ishness," etc., as a liability or capacity to sin! 

Why do men in Wesley's or any other age 
pervert the truth in such a wholesale manner? 
Simply because they are, not willing to humble 
themselves and get down and pray through till 
they receive a heart ''from sin set free," 



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Another error respecting the doctrine and 
preaching of holiness is: We are never entirely 
freed from sin, hut we are sanctified up to all the 
light we have. In other words, salvation on the 
installment plan. 

No goal reached, only approximated. As one 
walks in the light God will reveal deeper, more 
hidden things of the heart, and by a constant and 
progressive plan there will be developed from the 
depths of unconsciousness sin we did not know 
was there, and it is to be dealt with by confession, 
pardon, cleansing, etc. 

It is a clear and emphatic denial of the clear 
life of holiness that the Bible holds out to us. 
In short, it is reduced in few words to "growth in 
grace." 

It denies emphatically the higher life spoken 
of in the Scriptures. According to such doctrine, 
one would never be able to determine when he 
was saved. 

There is no evidence that we are ever saved 
in this world. 

If, as light increases, sin or depravity is more 
and more revealed and developed from the depths 
of unconsciousness to be dealt with by "confes- 
sion,*' "pardon," "cleansing," etc., who can de- 
termine when the end of sin is to come? 



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This doctrine is erroneous, from the fact that 
it teaches that our salvation is measured by our 
perceptions of our state, rather than hy the re- 
vealed word of God and His promises. 

According to such a false doctrine, one would 
be saved according to his keenness of vision and 
not according "to the power that worketh in us." 

The Bible nowhere tells us that we are saved 
according to the light we have. Paul did not 
pray that he might be able to comprehend with all 
saints how much light he had, but he did wan«t 
to comprehend "what is the length and breadth 
and depth and height, and be filled with all the 
fulness of God." 

Again: A third error is one in which it is 
asserted that sin is put under control^ hut not 
EXTERMINATED, 

There are many objections to this unscriptural 
position. 

I. It is anti-Wesleyan. 

To some this may not be a serious objection, 
but to those who want to be loyal Methodists, it is. 

It confounds entire sanctification with the 
Wesleyan idea of justification. In one of Wes- 
ley's Conferences (1744) the following question 
was introduced and discussed, viz. : "What are 
the immediate fruits of justifying faith?" 



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Answer : Peace, joy, love, power over all out- 
ward sin, and power to keep down inward sin. 
You will note that this is repression, but it be- 
longs, according to Wesley, to justification 
ONLY. 

"The justiHedf' says Mr. Wesley, ''has power 
both over outward and inward sin, from the mo- 
ment he is justified," 

He further says, "The immediate and con- 
stant fruit of faith by which we are born of God, 
fruit which cannot be separated from it for an 
hour, is power over sin; power over outward sin 
of every kind, and power over inward sin/* 

This repression that Wesley puts in justifica- 
tion is the doctrine that the Keswick brethren put 
in their sanctification ; which is both unscriptural 
and anti-Wesleyan. Those who believe and teach 
this theory are all the time busy repressing and 
keeping down sin, and making excuses for it 
when it comes to the surface in their lives. 

According to the Scriptures, there are no 
terms applied to inbred sin which signify repres- 
sion. 

Dr. Daniel Steele says : "The Greek language 
richly abounds in words signifying repression; a 
half score or more occur in the New Testament, 
yet none of them is used of inbred sin, but such 



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verbs as signify to cleanse, to purge, to purify, 
etc." 

Wherever the words "purging," "cleansing," 
"washing," "purifying," etc., are used, they are 
always used in connection with the thought of 
cleansing or washing away, but never with the 
thought of repression. 

The fourth and last error I wish to call at- 
tention to in this article is, not being specific in 
preaching the doctrine. We must not only gen- 
eralize and assent to the doctrine, but we must 
declare it positively, emphatically, definitely, and 
from a scriptural point of view, press it home on 
the hearts and consciences of the people. 

It is a mistaken idea to wait until the people 
are all saved before we preach holiness. This 
is one of the devil's biggest* traps, which he not 
only sets, but in which he catches many preach- 
ers and other people. 

It is a demonstrated fact that, where holiness 
is preached definitely and specifically, sinners seek 
the Lord and are saved. 

Another thing is generally true, and that is 
that, wherever any preacher preaches holiness as 
a second work of grace, he has more sinners 
at his altars seeking salvation than the preacher 
that simply preaches regeneration only. 



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This may not always be, but I say generally 
is true. 

The only thing that makes any one afraid of 
holiness or the preaching of holiness is the anti- 
holiness that is in his heart. That which makes 
one afraid to preach it or afraid of the results 
of preaching or testifying to it, is carnality in the 
heart. 

"Perfect love casteth out fear.'' "Fear hath 
torment." "He that feareth is not made perfect 
in love." 

Whenever a preacher is sanctified wholly, he 
knows where he got it, and he knows how he got 
it, and he knows when he got it. That kind of 
a preacher will preach holiness in such a way 
that other people will come into possession of the 
blessing. 

A man that has the blessing is not worried or 
troubled over scriptural terms. He not only has 
the theory, but he has THE BLESSING. 

Brother, the plan of salvation is good, but 
salvation beats the plan. The reason and cause 
for the decline of old-fashioned revivals is, we are 
not preaching and pressing Bible holiness as God 
wants us to. Holiness will not only win in this 
world, but it will be above all that we will have 
in the world which is to come. 



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Many meetings are called holiness meetings 
that are not holiness meetings at all. In a gen- 
uine holiness .meeting people get sanctified defi- 
nitely and they are not ashamed to tell people so. 
In a definite holiness meeting one will find open 
and many times persistent opposition, but that is 
a good omen. 

A meeting that stirs up no opposition, that 
does not make devils fly and saints happy, is a 
meeting without God. 

Let us earnestly and sensibly press scriptural 
holiness home on the hearts of all true believers 
and God will honor us with fruitful meetings, 
where the altars are crowded with earnest, hon- 
est people who are hungering and thirsting for 
that holiness "without which no man shall see the 
Lord." 



CHAPTER IV. 

HouNESs Obtainable: Now and Not He:re:- 

afte:r. 

I suppose it IS universally conceded and an 
axiom of Christian doctrine that "without holi- 
ness no man shall see the Lord/' The attainable- 
ness of such a state of grace is not so much a 
matter of debate among Christians, as the time 
when we are authorized to look for and expect it. 

•That holiness, or entire sanctification, is a 
complete deliverance from sin I think no fair- 
minded person will question. Two passages only- 
need be quoted to prove this : "And the very God 
of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God 
your whole spirit, and soul, and body be preserved 
blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus 
Christ.'' (L Thess. 5 : 23.) "Having therefore 
these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse our- 
selves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, 
perfecting holiness in the fear of God." (L Cor. 
7:1.) In both of these passages deliverance from 

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sin is the subject in hand. The prayer in one 
instance and the exhortation in the other is to 
the extent of the sanctification of the "soul" and 
''spirit/' as well as the "body," from all sin, by 
which can only be meant our complete deliver- 
ance from all spiritual pollution, all inward de- 
pravity. 

Now, if, since we are to be presented without 
"fault" to the Father, by His Son Jesus Christ; 
and since we are to be found of Him in peace; 
and we must be found of Him without spot, and 
blameless; it must be concluded — unless, on the 
one hand, we pervert the sense of these Scrip- 
tures, or, on the other, admit the doctrine of 
some intermediate purifying element or institu- 
tion — that the entire sanctification of the soul, 
and its complete renewal in holiness, must take 
place in this world. 

It would seem that ignorance (or prejudice) 
on the part of many spiritual Christians has 
caused them to warmly contend that the final 
stroke which destroys our natural corruption is 
only given at death ; and that the soul, when sep- 
arated from the body, and not before, is capable 
of that "holiness without which no man shall see 
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This view is utterly and completely .refuted 
in the Scripture following : 

''Blessed be the Lord God of Israel; for He 
hath visited and redeemed His people, and 
hath raised up an horn of salvation for us in the 
house of His servant David ; as He spake by the 
mouth of His holy prophets, which have been 
since the world began: that we should be saved 
from our enemies, and from the hand of all that 
hate us; to perform the mercy promised to our 
fathers, and to remember His holy covenant ; the 
oath which He sware to our father Abraham, 
that He would grant unto us, that we, being de- 
livered out of the hand of our enemies, might serve 
Him without fear, in holiness and righteousness 
before Him, all the days of our life/' (Luke i : 

68-75-) 

The reader will notice that we are to serve 

God in "HOLINESS, ALL THE DAYS OF 
OUR LIFE" — not after we come to death, nor 
after death. Nothing but inbred sin, through 
the channel of prejudice, will divert the soul at 
this point, to keep it out of the inheritance among 
them that are sanctified. There are no passages 
in the Bible that even hint at the thought of de- 
liverance from sin at death or thereafter. What 
fair-minded person can doubt the possibility of its 



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attainment who believes in the omnipotent love 
of God, the infinite merit of the blood of the 
Atonement, and the all-pervading and purifying 
energy of the Holy Ghost? 

Many people employ their time in cavil and 
dispute the possibility of being saved, which they 
should devote to praying and believing, that they 
might be saved both here and now from ALL 
SIN. Let God do the work for you! 



CHAPTER V. 
Thk Bejauty of Hoi,ine:ss. 

In the twenty-ninth Psalm, and the second 
verse, we have these words, "Worship the Lord 
in the beauty of hoHness/^ 

In this majestic Psalm is celebrated the mighty 
strength of Jehovah, and His great power is ex- 
emplified by an Oriental storm. His mighty 
thunder-peals which shake the everlasting hills, 
shiver the great cedars of Lebanon and cause 
them to skip like a calf ; His voice that shakes the 
wilderness, yea. His powerful voice "full of maj- 
esty/' are but His trumpet-calls to the universe, 
summoning angels and men to worship the Lord 
"in the beauty of holiness." 

While the services in the ancient temple were 
beautiful beyond measure, yet they were only 
typical of Gospel times and that beauty of inward 
purity, so precious in the eyes of the Lord. In 
our worship of heart holiness there are no flash- 
ing sunbeams reflecting burnished gold; cedars 

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do not cast their fragrance; no priests in festal 
attire, nor clouds of incense filling the air. Not- 
withstanding, in the fuller sense of the term, we 
have a greater revelation of God's glory and 
more abundant influences of the Spirit — we be- 
hold a beauty that far surpasses the beauty of the 
ancient Church, that is, the beauty of the Lord; 
yea, "THE BEAUTY OF HOLINESS !" 

Among all the Scripture modes used by the 
Holy Spirit to make holiness attractive to men, 
there is none more in accord with our tender- 
est and noblest feelings (for nothing] so gratifies 
and fills and hallows the soul of man) than 
BEAUTY. 

Ideas of beauty are the noblest that can be 
presented to the human mind ; and it would seem 
that our Heavenly Father intended that we should 
be constantly under their influence, for beauty 
is an all-prevailing presence in the universal cos- 
mos that surrounds us everywhere. 

Let us ask the questions: First, "What is 
beauty?'' Second, "What is the beauty of holi- 
ness ?" 

What is beauty? Who can define it? 

It may be called the assemblage of graces or 
qualities that delights the aesthetic faculty; that 
which pleases the mind, eye, or moral sense, etc. 



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Aesthetic is a love of the beautiful in nature, art, 
literature and life, etc. But when we turn from 
the beautiful in nature and the fanciful and some- 
times false, we find in the spiritual realm the true 
sestheticism that belongs to the noblest attributes 
of the soul. God has made the beautiful world 
around us and has given us a taste for it, and 
He has endowed us with the faculty of that sensi- 
bility of beauty, by the exercise of which we par- 
take of the most refined delights. To the person 
of true culture, beauty is as essential to the soul 
as sunshine is to the flower. 

The:re: is a Mate^riai. Be:auty. 

The visible creation that surrounds us minis- 
ters to our sense of beauty. All men are im- 
pressed with the beauty of the world. "The 
heavens declare the glory of God, and the firma- 
ment showeth His handiwork.'' The heavens 
above and the earth beneath, with their gorgeous 
array of pomp and purple and gold; the sunset, 
the twilight behind the purple hills, the sombre 
beauty of the jeweled night, the blazing galaxy 
of myriad stars, the scarlet arch of dawn, the dew 
of the grass, the flash and glint of the stream, 
the tints of the flowers, the commingled sunlight 
on summer foliage and graceful field, the shin- 



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ing sea, and the gigantic mountains — all over- 
flow with beauty. The divine Artist has spread 
out on the earth and sea and sky the grandest 
display of colors and grace of motion, with fair 
folding of beautiful lines, that divine imagery 
could invent. How the landscape overflows with 
beauty EVERYWHERE! 

What lines of grace are seen in the delicate 
folds of the clouds! Break a pebble and .you 
find a sparkling crystal in it. Sad, indeed, that 
persons having eyes yet see not. 

We once read somewhere that in one of the 
galleries of Florence is a little octagonal room, 
which is the inner sanctuary, ''the holy of holies'* 
of art, filled with the masterpieces of sculpture, 
and pictures which haunt the memory with their 
loveliness. Suppose one were to live in a room 
like that and never cast an eye on those miracles 
of art. Yet how many live in this beautiful 
world with its oriel windows, its spacious walls 
lined with the most exquisite pictures, its air 
thrilling with the most dehcious music, and every 
nook and corner filled with shining forms, and 
yet see not and feel not the beauty around them. 

There: is an Intei,i,ectuai. Beauty. 

The idea of Plato was that the mind only is 



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beautiful. The eye, the most kindly endowment 
among the senses, conveys only impressions. The 
sense simply stares at nature. It is the mind that 
discerns the beauty. It feels itself surrounded 
with beauty, and seeks to embody it in all kinds 
of new forms. In fact, the creation of beauty is 
art. We see the operation of mind upon the body 
in the fine cutting and chiselling of the features. 
The fairest face is utterly spoiled by the absence 
of mind, in the vacant lips, and the deadened 
stare, and the insipid brow; while culture gives 
a -sparkle to the eye, and a fine moulding to the 
brow, and impresses a new fairness upon the 
features, until the forehead outshines the coronet 
that may be placed on the head above it. 

The:r^ is a Moral and Spiritual Be:auty. 

Forged into these words are the noblest, the 
ripest, and the ultimate conceptions of beauty, 
for while it begins in the physical, it ends in 
the spiritual. 

Matter becomes more beautiful, as it loses its 
material aspect, and by ethereal lightness of its 
forms and motions, seems to approach spirit. The 
sensation of beauty is not merely sensual or in- 
tellectual, but is dependent on a pure, right state 
of the heart. To apprehend it most delightfully. 



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v/e must cultivate the moral and the spiritual 
nature. The beautiful is ever related to the true 
and the good. And this is the charge we bring 
against what is called "Modern Aestheticism.'' 
It is of the earth, earthy, and degrades the sense 
of beauty into the servant of lust. Strip these 
pretentious reformers, these apostles of beauty, 
of their disguises, and they simply offer sensual- 
ism instead of purity, and unbelief instead of faith 
in God and immortality. Life is robbed of its 
spiritual meaning. The presence of the higher 
— the spiritual — element is essential to the perfec- 
tion of beauty; and if we would be arrayed in 
loveliness, we must put off sin, and put on that 
grace which is inward, spiritual and eternal. 

Question number two. This brings us to Thk 
BKAUTY OF HOLINESS. This is the queen among 
queens, upon whose brow the crown of crowns 
rests in regal fitness. All beauty centers in God. 

What is the beauty of holiness ? 

I. It is the beauty of moral health. Holi- 
ness, in its etymological signification, means a 
state of wholeness, completeness, as when the 
body is in perfect health. The Greek conception 
of manhood was that of a handsome, strong, per- 
fectly healthy body. The beauty of holiness is 
the beauty of fully restored soul health. Sin 
entered humanity, and disease by sin ; and unless 



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there be the quickening of a new life, a change 
going down to the deep center of our personal 
being, the end thereof is death. 

The believer is quickened together with Christ, 
lie is born of God, regenerated by the Holy 
Ghost, created anew in righteousness and true 
holiness. He is, in a sense, holy. But there are 
the remains of sin — "roots of bitterness'* — that 
tempt him — evil passions and desires ready to 
start forth in an unguarded moment ; and he feels 
the need, not only of forgiveness, but of thorough 
cleansing. The great purpose of the atoning 
work of Christ is to remove the corruption and 
disease of sin, and give health of heart and life. 

2. It is the beauty of purity. 

Purity is freedom from sin, from foulness, 
and from the presence and pollution of sin. When 
we speak of the purity of the rose, the purity 
of the crystal, the purity of 'the stars, and the 
purity of the light, we get the idea and thought 
of spiritual purity. Heart purity is something 
more than mere regeneration. 

When we sing that old song : 

** There is a fountain filled with blood, 

Drawn from ImmanuePs veins; 
And sinners plunged beneath that flood, 

Lose all their guilty stains,^' 



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there is no literal application of the Blood, no lit- 
eral plunging into a fountain, etc. The Blood 
is the life and it symbolizes His sacrificial death. 
The Blood to atone, and the Spirit to sanctify. 

Faith leads us to accept it and to open our 
hearts, and thus we are purified. 

Regeneration is great, but purity of heart 
sweeps us into the heavenlies, to where there are 
no more evil tempers, wrath, pride, malice, envy, 
self-will and other fleshly lusts, etc. 

How can one sin while he abides in that pres- 
ence which transforms and assimilates into His 
own likeness? His blood cleanses from all sin. 

3. It is the beauty of repose. 

No great work of art can be perfect without 
it. This is one of the great characteristics of 
the beauty of holiness, it is the beauty of soul 
rest; rest from sin, actual and acquired; from 
guilt and pollution. 

"Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace whose 
mind is stayed on Thee." Perfect peace, perfect 
repose. It is that which anchors the soul when 
the storms are raging and those contemptible en- 
emies of the soul — ^pride, the usurper; ambition, 
the desperado; envy, the murmur er; and hate, the 
murderer — are prowling around. 

These enemies have been cast out, and, thank 



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God ! we do not have to let them in again. What 
an unspeakable calm in the soul where self has 
been dethroned and Christ enthroned ! ■ How our 
peace flows like a river ! 

4. It is the beauty of symmetry. 

By this is meant the beautiful equipoise of 
soul, or that divine supernatural naturalness that 
gives the easy, ball-bearing carriage and recip- 
rocal balance like the boughs on opposite sides of 
a tree. This is the beautiful grace of soul, the 
gyroscopic movement that holds all together and 
moves on in sweet harmony, well rounded, well 
developed, and full orbed in every sense of the 
term. 

5. It is the beauty of activity. 

Holiness is no mere luxury. It does not sit 
down and rock itself to sleep, nor sing itself away 
into everlasting bliss. It does not run off and 
hide itself in solitary confinement where the winds 
cannot blow upon it, nor the rain find it, neither 
the sun shine on it, nor the snow wreathe its 
beautiful brow; but it is most practical, most 
bracing, most active. The faith that purifies the 
heart is also a faith that works by love. Faith 
is a bride, young and beautiful; daughter of the 
skies. Her face, clear as the day ; her garments, 
radiant as the light; and by her side stands one 



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whose name is Action, a sinewy athlete with valor 
in his eye, and cunning in his fingers, and strength 
in his right arm. They are joined in wedlock, 
both to love and to obey, and, ''What God hath 
joined together, let no man put asunder/' 

You know the legend in which three fair ones 
were disputing as to which had the most lovely 
hand. One sat by a stream, and dipped her hand 
into the water, and held it up; another plucked 
strawberries until her fingers were pink; a third 
gathered violets till her hands were fragrant. 
An old woman passing by, asked a gift for the 
poor. All three denied her, but another maid, 
who stood near — her hand unwashed in the 
stream, unstained with fruit, unadorned with 
flowers — gave her a little gift. Then they asked 
the old woman to settle the dispute, and lifted up 
before her their beautiful hands. -"Beautiful, 
indeed,'^ she said, "but not her hand that is 
washed in the brook, nor the hand that is tipped 
with red, nor the hand that is garlanded with 
fragrant flowers ; the hand that gives to the poor, 
that is MOST beautiful;'' and as she spake her 
wrinkles fled, her staff was thrown aside, and she 
stood before them an angel from Heaven, with 
authority to decide. That decision stands the test 
of all time. 



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Kindred to this legend, is that of the Quest of 
the Holy Grail, the cup from which the Savior 
drank at the Last Supper. The brave Knight of 
the Round Table traveled over the mountains and 
across the desert, in search of this mysterious 
Grail, until, weary and disappointed, he was re- 
turning to Arthur's hall, when, at the gate of 
Camelot, he saw a poor man struggling in the 
last agonies of death. Moved with compassion, 
he dismounted and sought a cup of water, and 
raised it to his lips — when, lo! the cup glowed 
and flamed as with the sapphire of the New Jeru- 
salem. He had found the Holy Grail while do- 
ing Chrisfs zvork. 

It is objected that the fully saved are no bet- 
ter than other Christians. Every justified be- 
liever is called to live outwardly a holy life, but 
the vital difference is inward; the hidden life be- 
ing steadier, purer, deeper; the strong defences 
of each besetting sin are broken down, the 
thoughts that direct the affections are chaste and 
pure. Here, in the heart experiences, they are 
better, and yet in the life around, they are to show 
forth those fruits of righteousness which are by 
faith in Christ Jesus, to the glory and power of 
God. Holiness is not set on a pedestal, like a 
piece of elegant statuary ; not merely a happy ex- 



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perience — an uninterrupted, rapturous commun- 
ion with God, a constant inward triumph; it is 
a life, and the most ardent lover of Jesus will be 
the most earnest worker for Him. A man that 
lives so that men do not know that he is holy, is 
not holy. 

6. It is the beauty of completeness. 

Is not sound, full, complete life, a thing of 
beauty? Why should any dislike it? It is our 
spiritual manhood ; it is the resplendent constella- 
tion of any sparkling virtue. It is the blended 
fragrance of any flower of grace, shed over the 
spirit. It is the richness of complete harmony; 
one may have sameness in a pile of sand, but 
no harmony. The performer may sweep the keys 
of the instrument and though each key has a dif- 
ferent pitch in tone, yet the most beautiful har- 
mony. So when God sweeps the harpstrings of 
the soul perfected in holiness, the deep thunder 
of the bass, the blending of the alto and tenor, 
the exquisite soprano all unite in the majestic 
harmony of Heaven and that holiness without 
which no man shall see God. It is the fruits 
of the Spirit, in their ripest, sweetest, most mel- 
low stage. 

7. Finally, it is the beauty of Christlikeness. 
God says, "Be ye holy, as / am holy;" and 



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God in Christ says, "Follow Me/' It is ''put- 
ting on the Lord Jesus Christ." It is having 
''the mind that was in Christ Jesus/' And how 
great is this beauty! He is ''altogether lovely!" 
The beauty of flowers is the crowning glory of 
the material world. He is the Rose of Sharon, 
and the Lily of the Valley, that has displayed 
His beauty, and loaded the centuries with His 
perfume. His personal character was without 
blemish; the law of kindness dwelt upon His 
tongue. There was no guile in His mouth. He 
was holy and harmless — undefiled. This is the 
image of the heavenly, we are to copy. They 
serve Him best, and advance His kingdom most, 
who go abroad among men, with the light of 
holiness irradiating the face, and with hands full 
of blessing. Men are to be won to Christ, not 
scolded or driven into the fold with dogs and 
sticks. "The servant of the Lord must not 
strive.'' He must be strong, yet gentle. 

O beloved, if we would ''adorn the doctrine" 
of God, our Savior, and would bring many to 
Christ, we must be so clothed with the heavenly 
Spirit, so mild and gentle, so sweet and forgiv- 
ing, so noble and ennobling, that our hearts shall 
become the very homes of purity, and our lives be 
radiant with beauty. And among Christian men 



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in business, care-pressed and toil-worn, we must 
preserve, amid the bustle and distraction, the 
sharp practices and wrong-doing of others, such 
a conscious integrity, such joy and peace in the 
Holy Ghost, that, in the mighty magnetism of 
love to Christ, we shall be uplifted, and our faces 
shine with "the beauty of the Lord/' 

Oh, for a present, mighty, simple, all-inclusive 
faith — faith in the promises, in Christ's blood, in 
the sanctifying Spirit! Expect this blessing by 
faith; expect it as you are; expect it now. We 
shall be like Him, This is the blessedness that 
fills the hearts of perfected spirits. The rapture 
of eternity is the progress of eternity in the 
beauty of holiness — an ever-increasing and ever- 
unfolding beauty; a mounting from height to 
height, from summit to summit of holiness ! 



CHAPTER VI. 

We:si.e:y vs. Mode:rn Write:rs. 

There are abroad in the land either false state- 
ments concerning history and dates with regard 
to Mr. Wesley, or, on the other hand, there is 
downright and gross ignorance on the part of 
some writers whom we have in mind. 

I have in my possession a set of Tyerman's 
*Xife of Wesley," in which he says Mr. Wesley 
never testified to sanctification ; that though he 
may have preached it, yet he did not give direct 
testimony as to having it. Strange, indeed, that 
such a man as Dr. Tyerman, capable of writing 
a life history of so great a man as John Wesley, 
should not be in possession of all the facts in the 
case when it comes to a doctrine that distin- 
guished him and his almost numberless followers, 
in a way that has enshrined them in the heart and 
history of the New World. One historian, in 
writing of the great revival that broke out in 
Europe in 1738, says: "The revival began in a 

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small knot of Oxford students, whose revolt 
against the religious deadness of the times showed 
itself in ascetic observances, and in enthusiastic 
devotion, and a methodical regularity of life 
which gained them the nickname of 'Metho- 
dists/ '' 

Three figures detached themselves from the 
group as soon as, on its transfer to London in 
1738, it attracted public attention by the fervor 
and extravagancy of its piety, and each found 
his special work in the task to which the instinct 
of the new movement led it from the first, that 
of carrying religion and morality to the vast mas- 
ses of population which lay concentrated in towns,, 
or around the mines and colleries of Cornwall 
and the north. 

The voices of these men were soon heard in 
the wildest and most barbarous corners of the 
land, among the bleak moors of Northumberland, 
or in the dens of London, or in the long galleries 
where, in the pauses of his labor, the Cornish 
miner listens to the sobbing of the sea. 

Whitefield, a servitor of Pembroke College, 
was above all, the preacher of the revival. 

Whitefield's preaching was such as England 
had never heard before, often commonplace, but 
hushing all criticism by its intense reality, its ear- 



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nestness of belief, Its deep, tremulous sympathy 
with the sin and sorrow of mankind. It was no 
commonplace enthusiast that could wring gold 
from the close-fisted Franklin, and admiration 
from the fastidious Horace Walpole, or who 
could look down from the top of a green knoll at 
Kingswood on twenty thousand colliers, grimy 
from the Bristol coal-pits, and see, as he preached, 
the tears "making white channels down their 
blackened cheeks." 

The preaching of these men stirred a passion- 
ate hatred in their opponents. Their lives were 
often in danger, they were mobbed, they were 
ducked, they were stoned, they were smothered 
with filth. 

Charles Wesley, a Christ Church student, 
came to add sweetness to this sudden and start- 
ling light. He was the "sweet singer" of the 
movement. "His hymns expressed the fiery con- 
viction of its converts in lines so chaste and beau- 
tiful that its more extravagant features disap- 
peared. The wild throes of enthusiasm passed 
into a passion for hymn-singing, and a new mu- 
sical impulse was aroused in the people which 
gradually changed the face of public devotion 
throughout England/' (Green's "Short History 
of the English People.") 



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Now let us ask the question, What special fea- 
ture, or phase of doctrine, characterized this great 
nation-wide, yea, world-wide, revival ? Suppose we 
let Mr. Wesley answer it. Hear him. He describes 
these times thus: "In the year 1729 four young 
students in Oxford agreed to spend their even- 
ings together. They were all zealous members 
of the Church of England, and had no particular 
opinions, but were distinguished only by their 
constant attendance on the church and sacra- 
ments. In 1735 they were increased to fifteen, 
when the chief of them embarked for America, 
intending to preach to the heathen Indians. 
Methodism then seemed to die away, but it re- 
vived again in 1738." 

This is the time referred to in the secular his- 
tory we have just quoted. 

He further says: "Many years since, I saw 
that without holiness no man shall see the Lord. 
I began following after it, and inciting all with 
whom I had any intercourse to do the same. Ten 
years after God gave me a clearer view than I 
had before of the way to obtain this, namely, by 
faith in the Son of God; and immediately I de- 
clared to all, We are saved from sin, we are 
made holy, by faith. THIS I TESTIFIED IN 
PRIVATE, IN PUBLIC, IN PRINT, and God 



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confirmed it by a thousand witnesses. I have 
continued to declare this for thirty years." 
("American Magazine," Vol. XX., page 563.) 

How does that compare with what Dr. Tyer- 
man says? He says Wesley never testified once 
to having the experience of holiness. Wesley 
says : "God gave me a clearer view than I had be- 
fore of the way to obtain this, namely, *By faith 
in the Son of God,' and immediately I declared to 
all, We are saved from all sin, we are made holy 
by faith. This I testified in private, in public, in 
print, and God confirmed it by a thousand wit- 
nesses." Now whom shall we believe, Tyerman 
or Wesley? Here is a case where a modern 
writer says that Wesley never testified to holiness 
or sanctification, but Mr. Wesley said he did, and 
we have it in black and white. 

Not only in regard to testimony, but he either 
wilfully or ignorantly misquoted Mr. Wesley in 
his statement concerning the time when he (Mr. 
Wesley) found people professing the experience. 
He says : "Wesley had held the doctrine of Chris- 
tian perfection ever since the year 1733, but now 
for the first time (1760) he found people profess- 
ing the experience and practicing it. Yea, more, 
they professed to have attained to this state of 



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purity in a moment, and simply by faith." (Tyer- 
man's "Life of Wesley/' Vol. II., page 417.) 

He claims that this was the ''first time'' Mr. 
Wesley found people professing to experience and 
practice Christian perfection. Now suppose 
we turn to Mr. Wesley's account in his sermon on 
patience. He says : "Four or five and forty years 
ago, when I had no distinct view of what the 
Apostle meant by exhorting us to 'leave the prin- 
ciples of the doctrine of Christ and go on to per- 
fection,' two or three persons in London, whom 
I knew to be truly sincere, desired to give me 
account of their experience. It appeared ex- 
ceedingly strange, being different from any that 
I had heard before, but exactly similar to the pre- 
ceding account of entire sanctification. The next 
year two or three more persons in Bristol, and two 
or three in Kingswood, coming to me severally, 
gave me exactly the same account of their experi- 
ence. A few years after I desired all those in 
London, who made the same profession, to come 
to me all together at the foundry. In the years 
1759, 1760, 1 761 and 1762 their number multi- 
plied exceedingly. Not only in London and Bris- 
tol, but in various parts of Ireland, as well as 
England." 

Forty-five years before would be 1739, when 



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these persons came to Mr. Wesley and told him 
the experiences which were similar to his own 
account of entire sanctification. The next year 
(1740) there were others from Kingswood and 
Bristol, and subsequently many from London met 
him at the foundry, whose testimonies he could 
not but believe. These statements disprove Mr. 
Tyerman's statement that 1760 was the "first 
time'* Mr. Wesley found people professing to ex- 
perience Christian perfection. Twenty-one 
years prior to this, according to Mr. Wesley, he 
conversed with witnesses. According to Mr. 
Wesley's statement, he did not take up the instan- 
taneous feature later in life, as some writers 
would have us believe. 

Upon this false foundation of dates and state- 
ments is where W. F. Tillett, of Vanderbilt, 
makes his gross mistake in his book, in saying: 
"He (Mr. Wesley) was introducing an element 
into his doctrine of Christian perfection that was 
logically and theologically irreconcilable with the 
doctrine which he had been preaching from the 
beginning of his ministry." 

Having shown that Dr. Tyerman was mis- 
taken and untrue as to the time the doctrine of 
"INSTANTANEOUS sanctification" appeared. 
Dr. Tillett's statement that it was "then" that he 



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introduced for the "first time'' the element of. his 
doctrine "which has been the fruitful cause of 
serious differences of opinion among his followers 
from that day to this/' is also untrue. His state- 
ment that "during the last twelve or fifteen years 
of his life John Wesley gave up all insistence upon 
instantaneous sanctification," that he "quietly let 
it drop/' is also untrue to the core. It is plainly 
proven by the plain, written statements of Mr. 
Wesley that, to the very day of his death, he 
urged the people to press on into "full sanctifica- 
tion" received now by faith. 

Let me say in conclusion that the personnel 
of the Church of to-day prefer to believe the state- 
ments of John Wesley with his own signature 
attached to them, rather than the false statements 
of writers who base their statements upon error. 



CHAPTER VII. 

^'Without Shedding o^ Blood Is No 
Remission/' 

God has so ordained and planned salvation for 
mankind that the remission of sin is through the 
element and means of blood. He could as eas- 
ily have planned some other mode or way, but 
He did not. Salvation is not by works, nor 
achievements, neither by death, nor growth, nor 
by anything that we can do or merit; but simply 
through the shed blood of His dear Son do we 
come into favor with God. 

How the human and deceitful and wicked 
heart of man does want to climb up some other 
way. Jesus Himself said: "He that climbeth up 
some other way, the same is a thief and a rob- 
ber.'' If we would please God and do His will 
in every word and work, then we must turn to 
the Blood. 

"Now the God of peace, that brought again 
from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great Shep- 

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herd of the sheep, through the blood of the ever- 
lasting covenant, 

''Make yon perfect in every good work to do 
His will, zv or king in yon that which is well pi eas- 
ing in His sight, through Jesus Christ; to zvhom 
be glory for ever and even Amen." (Heb. 13 : 
20, 21.) 

When a sinner comes to God for pardon, he 
tmconsciously thinks that he has to do just so 
much praying, penance, and other works, etc., 
before he can trust the Blood to wash away his 
sins. There are certain people in this world who 
make fun of the religion of our Lord and Savior 
Jesus Christ, and they say they do not want a 
religion that savors of the shambles, etc., yet the 
Book plainly says that ''without shedding of blood 
is no remission.'' This is hard on Unitarianism. 
Christian Science (falsely so called), and the 
other vain and false religions of the world. 

''There is none other name tmder Heaven 
given among men, whereby we may be saved.'' 

All the types of the Old Testament, in the 
shedding of the animal's blood, pointed to the 
real, or efficacious, blood that should take away 
the sin of the world. 

We question the veracity of God, and deepen 
the turpitude af sin, when we question the cleans- 



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ing of all sin out of the heart through faith in the 
shed Blood, for it is through the Blood we are 
saved from the wrath of God. 

"Therefore being justified by faith, we have 
peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ: 

"By zvhom also we have access by faith into 
tJiis grace zvherein we stand, and rejoice in hope 
of the glory of God. 

"And not only so, but we glory in tribulations 
also : knowing that tribulation worketh patience; 

"And patience, experience; and experience, 
hope : 

"And hope maketh not ashamed; because the 
love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the 
Holy Ghost zvhich is given unto us. 

"For when we were yet without strength, in 
due time Christ died for the ungodly. 

"For scarcely for a righteous man will one 
die : yet peradventure for a good man some woidd 
e7'en dare to die. 

"But God commendeth His love toward us, in 
that, zvhile zve zvere yet sinners, Christ died for us. 

"Much more then, being now justified by His 
blood, we shall be saved from zvrath through 
Him.'' (Rom. 5: 1-9.) 

Will the reader kindly notice that, in the first 
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we are justified. Faith in what ? The last verse 
tells us it is in and throught the BLOOD we are 
saved from wrath. "Not by works, lest any man 
should boast. Where is boasting then? it is ex- 
cluded.'^ 

We are sanctified through the Blood; not by 

death nor works, neither by growth nor old age, 

but through the BLOOD OF JESUS CHRIST. 

"Jesiis Christ, the same yesterday, and to-day, 

and for ever, 

''Be not carried about with divers and strange 
doctrines: for it is a good thing that the heart 
he established with grace; not with meats, zvhich 
have not profited them that have been occupied 
therein. 

''We have an altar, whereof they have no right 
to eat which serve the tabernacle, 

"For the bodies of those beasts, whose blood 
is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest 
for sin, are burned without the camp. 

"Wherefore Jesus also, that He might sanc- 
tify the people with His own blood, suffered with- 
out the gate. 

"Let us go forth therefore unto Him without 
the camp, bearing His reproach." (Heb. 13: 

8-13.) 

'For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the 



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ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sancti- 
Heth to the purifying of the flesh : 

"Hozv much more shall the blood of Christ, 
who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself 
without spot to God, purge your conscience from 
dead works to serve the living Godf (Heb. 9: 

13. 14.) 

"But if we walk in the light, as He is in the 
light, we have fellowship one with another, and 
the BLOOD of Jesus Christ His Son CLEANS- 
ETH US FROM ALL SIN/' (L John i : 7.) 

No wonder John the Baptist cried out, "Be- 
hold the LAMB OF GOD, which taketh away the 
sin of the world,'' when he saw Jesus coming to 
him. Our full and complete redemption comes 
through the BLOOD. 

''Who hath delivered us 'from the 'power of 
darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom 
of His dear Son : 

''In zvhom we have redemption through His 
blood, even the forgiveness of sins/' (Col. i : 

13. 14.) 

''Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not re- 
deemed with corruptible things, as silver and 
gold, from your vain conversation received by 
tradition from your fathers; 



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''But with the precious blood of Christ, as of 
a lamb without blemish and without spot : 

'Who verily was foreordained before the 
foundation of the world , but was manifest in these 
last times for you!' (I. Pet. i : 18-20.) 

The blood of Jesus Christ furnishes all the 
ground-work for our salvation from sin, and our 
ultimate redemption. The people of earth who 
reject God's Son and His plan of salvation, reject 
the Father also. Where this is the case, there is 
no hope for them in this world, neither in the 
world to come. 

"Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus 
is the Christ f He is antichrist that denieth the 
Father and the Son, 

"Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath 
not the Father: (but) he that acknowledgeth the 
Son hath the Father also, 

"Let that therefore abide in you, zvhich ye 
have heard from the beginning. If that which 
ye have heard from the beginning shall remain in 
you, ye also shall continue in the Son, and in the 
Father." ( 1. John 2 : 22-24. ) 

Leprosy is incurable, so far as man is con- 
cerned, and is only effected by a special work of 
God, and effected in a moment. Hallelujah! 
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God would cleanse us from sin. It was instan- 
taneous. The work was short. 

Christ said, "I will, BE THOU CLEAN." 
And IMMEDIATELY his leprosy was cleansed. 
(Matt. 8:3.) So the Holy Ghost, by one stroke, 
can kill carnality in the soul, cleanse it from 
the leprosy of sin, and make the GENUINE 
seeker IMMEDIATELY WHOLE. 



CHAPTER VIII. 

"SANCTlIi^lED BY TH]^ H0I.Y GhOST/' 

(Rom. 15: 16.) 

Those who teach that we are to grow grad- 
ually into the state of entire sanctification, with- 
out ever experiencing an instantaneous change 
from inbred sin to holiness of heart, are not only 
to be repudiated as unsound, but as unscriptural 
and anti-Wesleyan. Sanctification is a work to 
be wrought in the heart of the Christian by the 
Holy Ghost. This is done in a moment, in the 
twinkling of an eye. It is not something that we 
do. It is something that we let God do in us. 

Sanctification is the destruction of sin in the 
soul. This is pre-eminently the work of the Holy 
Spirit. Hence we find in Hebrews, the tenth 
chapter and the fourteenth and fifteenth verses, 
these words, "For by one oflfering He hath per- 

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fected forever them that are sanctified; whereof 
the Holy Spirit also is a witness to us/' 

The work of entire sanctification is not to give 
us more religion, but to take out of the soul that 
which is foreign to the religion we received when 
we were converted. 

Regeneration does not reach the inbred sin 
of the soul when we are born of God. Inbred 
sin is something deeper down and farther back 
than the will. It is a state of soul, a sub-con- 
sciousness that nothing can reach but the power 
of the Holy Ghost. This work is to be done in the 
heart of every believer. Nothing but downright 
earnestness and honesty wall ever get this work 
accomplished in the heart. There must be self- 
abasement, deep heart-searchings, self-denial, ab- 
stinence, fasting and prayer; in fact, when one 
seeks and searches for Him with all the heart, 
He will be found of him. 

The tendency of the age in the present-day 
teaching of the average popular preacher and 
teacher is — an easy way to Heaven. The "old 
man'' of sin hates to be crucified. He dreads 
the death-dealing blow. How this blow humbles 
the pride, subdues the will, and brings into sub- 
jection every thought ! 

Inbred sin is likened to a leper, in the Script- 



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ures. How foul and loathsome the leprosy! It 
can not be improved in any way, no ointment will 
mollify it, it can not be grown out, nor can it be 
outgrown. Only one remedy — EXTERMINA- 
TION. So with the dread disease of human 
depravity, or inbred sin ; it must be gotten rid of, 
and the only remedy is God's remedy, that of 
PURGING. 

Leprosy is incurable, so far as man is con- 
cerned, and is only effected by a special work of 
God and effected in a moment. Hallelujah ! The 
cleansing of the leper was an emblem of how God 
would cleanse us from sin. It was instantaneous. 
The work was short. 

Christ said, "I will, BE THOU CLEAN." 
And IMMEDIATELY his leprosy was cleansed. 
(Matt. 8:3.) So the Holy Ghost, by one stroke, 
can kill carnality in the soul, and cleanse it from 
the leprosy of sin and make the GENUINE seek- 
er IMMEDIATELY WHOLE. 



CHAPTER IX. 
Holiness the Secret oe not Falling. 

''But Noah found grace in the eyes of the 
Lord. 

''These are the generations of Noah: Noah 
was a just man and perfect in his generations, 
and Noah walked with God. 

"And Noah begat three sons, Shem, Ham, 
and Japheth. 

"The earth also was corrupt before God, and 
the earth was filled with violence. 

"And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, 
it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his 
way upon the earth. 

"And God said unto Noah, The end of all 
flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled 
with violence." (Gen. 6 : 8-13.) 

The combination of the most awful tempta- 
tions in their assault upon me, the universally 
low tone of the environment in which I may be 
placed to-day, the entire lacl: of any encourage- 

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ment to hold the highest standard — all these in- 
fluences that would put me down, are not re- 
sponsible for my going down, if I should go. 
Only one thing would be responsible, and that 
is my heart refusing to walk with God, refusing 
to let Him sanctify me and remove from my 
heart that which would make me go down in 
the supreme test. 

Noah was right and just and perfect; not 
only so, but he WALKED with God. The person 
who walks with God will walk into holiness. 

''But if we walk in the light, as He is in the 
light, we have fellovuship one with another, and 
the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanseth us 
from all sin.'' (I. John 1:7.) 

Here is the secret of living a successful Chris- 
tian life in any generation — walking with God, 
and having ALL SIN cleansed out of the heart 
and life. 

We do not read of David's falling, after God 
had created in him a clean heart. Of course 
holiness does not make one immune from tempta- 
tion, but it puts one above his surroundings and 
gives him victory over every assault of the 
devil, if he wants it. Though the earth was 
filled with violence, and was corrupt before God, 
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Why? Because he was a perfect man and 
walked with his God. You will notice that the 
man who walks with God and is a perfect man, 
will have favor and remembrance when the judg- 
ments of Jehovah are brought upon men. 

''And Jehovah said unto Noah, Come thou 
and all thy house into the ark; for thee have 
I seen righteous before Me in this generation, 

''And I J behold, I do bring the Hood of waters 
upon the earth, to destroy all Hesh, . . . But I 
will establish My covenant with thee; and thou 
shalt come into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and 
thy wife, and thy sons' wives with thee, , . . Thus 
did Noah," 

The death penalty was declared, and with 
it the way of escape. That is the message to-day. 
All flesh that stays out of the New Covenant that 
God has established, which is "HOLINESS 
UNTO THE LORD/' will be destroyed forever 
and lost in Hell. 

All who will, may enter into the covenant, 
and take with them their families. Some peo- 
ple say that they could not believe in a God who 
made a Hell. They seem to forget that, with 
the Hell, He provides a way of escape : He estab- 
lishes a covenant for all who will. And the man 
who enters into that covenant and leaves out a 



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single member of his family is not up to the 
standard of Noah. 

Let us see to it that we do all in our power 
"to get all our household into the ark. If we want 
all our families saved, and we want to guard 
against backsliding, we would do well to learn 
the lesson that Noah learned — WALK WITH 
GOD— BE RIGHTEOUS— and be found of 
Him a PERFECT man; then will we, too, find 
grace in the eyes of the Lord. Then we will 
find, as did Noah, in his day, that, though the 
earth be filled with violence, and all may corrupt 
His way on the earth, yet, if we are holy and 
walk with God, we, too, will find grace in His 
eyes, and we will never fall. 



CHAPTER X. 

A PivKA i^OR The: Simple Reugion 
OF Our Fathers. 

The religion of our fathers was personal re- 
ligion — the religion of regenerated and sancti- 
fied individual souls. 

This religion grew and blossomed into testi- 
mony, songs, praise and street preaching, until 
the great revival of personal religion broke out 
in the seventeenth century, under Wesley and 
Whitefield, that gave rise to the four great philan- 
thropic movements in the eighteenth and nine- 
teenth centuries ; i. e., the anti-slavery movement, 
led by Wilberf orce ; the prison-reform movement, 
led by John Howard; the Sunday-school move- 
ment, initiated by Robert Raikes ; and the foreign- 
missionary movement, begun by William Carey. 

The plain, simple preaching of the Word of 
God precipitated revivals of religion, which pro- 
duced the multitudinous rich fruit of Christianity, 
the like of which the world had not seen since 

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the Day of Pentecost. The combination of schol- 
arship with deep piety and a burning zeal for the 
salvation of lost men, presented a front which 
the devil was not able to resist nor the world to 
gainsay. 

Just as the disciples, after the Day of Pen- 
tecost, they went everywhere ^^preaching the 
Word/' And they had results. Altars were 
crowded with weeping penitents crying, "Men 
and brethren, what shall we do?'' 

Rev. Hugh Price Hughes possessed that rare 
combination of culture and evangelism. Leaving 
Oxford with the determination, as he tells us, 
"to become a scholarly and literary preacher, the 
exigent needs of the multitudes, the moribund 
moralities of the masses, high and low, and then 
the displayed power of God in saving men, after a 
ventured evangelistic sermon of his one night at 
Dover, changed the whole current of his minis- 
try," and made him one of the mightiest soul- 
winners of any generation, and, under God, a re- 
creator of both British and American Methodism, 

Our fathers were believers in the Word of 
God, and were not colored with the higher crit- 
icism, materialism, or popular infidelity and unbe- 
lief of their age, as we are in ours. They be- 
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pure. They believed in the new birth of the Spirit 
— ra crisis in the hfe of a sinner where he is chan- 
ged in heart as well as in mind, and necessar- 
ily has a transition in life, and a translation out 
of the kingdom of death into the kingdom of life ; 
out of darkness into light. They believed in jus- 
tification, regeneration and adoption, the witness 
of the Spirit and entire sanctification. They 
believed in the Bible account of creation. They 
believed in the divinity and miracles of Jesus 
Christ ; also in His resurrection, and in His com- 
ing to this earth again. They believed in Hell 
and the Judgment, and so preached. 

The need of the Church at this hour is a re- 
turn to the simple religion that has made her all 
she is or ever will be, which is of any worth. 
The foregoing fact is recognized by the world at 
large. 

Listen to the cry of an organ so commercial 
as the "Wall Street Journal." It says: "What 
America needs more than railway extension, and 
Western irrigation, and a low tariff, and a big- 
ger wheat crop, and a merchant marine, and a 
new navy, is a revival of piety — the kind mother 
and father used to have; piety that counted it 
good business to stop for daily family prayer 
before breakfast, right in the middle of the har- 



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vest ; that quit field work a half hour early Thurs- 
day night, so as to get the 'chores' done and go 
to prayer-meeting; that borrowed money to pay 
the preacher's salary, and prayed fervently in 
secret for the salvation of the rich man who look- 
ed with scorn on such unbusinesslike behavior. 

"That's what we need now to clean this coun- 
try of the filth of graft, and of greed — petty 
and big ; of worship of fine houses, and big lands, 
and high offices, and grand social functions. 
What is this wealth we are worshipping, but a 
vain repetition of what decayed nations fell down 
and worshipped just before their light went out?" 

Think of such a statement coming from the 
world ! 

Instead of such words coming from our 
preachers (from whence they should come), they 
are dealing with complex social questions, and 
telling our people what they do not believe about 
the Bible; hence the dearth of revivals of pure 
and undefiled religion. 

Oh, for a return to the simple-hearted religion 
that changed the moral complexion of a whole 
continent! The world at large is beginning to 
feel the need of it, why should not we ? 



CHAPTER XI. 
Th^ Living Word of God. 

In Philippians 2: 16, we have the expression, 
''The Word of Life/' In Hebrews 4: 12, we 
have the additional statement, ''The Word of God 
is LIVING, and powerful, and sharper than any 
tzvo-edged sword/' (R. V.) Again, in I. Peter 
1 : 23, we read, "The Word of God which LIV- 
BTH/' 

In what respect can the Bible be said to be 
the LIVING Word of God? It is clear that it 
lives with a spiritual, inexhaustible, and inextin- 
guishable life,, different from the ordinary life of 
the natural world we see about us on every hand. 

Everywhere we look we see death stamped on 
everything. At every turn we notice the invar- 
iable rule and method of decay and corruption. 
Now here is a Book that tells us that in this 
world of dying beings, where the forces of cor- 
ruption fasten on everything in which life has 
entered, and upon the works of living creatures, 

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there is one object that death cannot touch. That 
object is one of the marvels of the ages. It is 
found in the person of JESUS CHRIST, who 
is declared in I. John i : i to be the "WORD OF 
LIFE." 

There are many points of resemblance be- 
tween the written Word and the incarnate Word. 
When the Word was made flesh and dwelt among 
men, there was nothing in His appearance to 
manifest His deity. Neither His blameless life, 
nor His unselfish behavior, nor His incompar- 
able teachings, nor wonderful discourses, proved 
His divinity; but His glorious RESURREC- 
TION FROM THE DEAD did prove Him di- 
vine beyond any possibility of a doubt. 

There is just one power in this world that 
is greater than death, and that is the power of 
life. This, Jesus Christ has ; and not only so, 
but He holds the keys of death and Hell. (Rev. 
i: i8.) 

Similarly, the Bible has no characteristics 
to show it has divine life that other books do 
not have. It is printed in the same cold type 
that other books are printed in. 

Jesus, when He came on earth, had a body 
just as other men. And, outside His resurrec- 
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not common to other men. The Bible bears the 
same resemblance to other books that the Son of 
Mary bore to other men. As He came in human 
flesh, the Bible is given in human language. 

But if you will notice carefully, you will find 
the same difference between the Bible and other 
books, that you find between Him and other men. 
He was not unlike other men in many ways, 
yet in one way He was like no other man that 
ever lived before or after Him; He had power 
to lay down His life and power to take it up 
again. In other words, He has the power to 
LIVE FOREVER. 

So with the Book, "Some may come and some 
may go, but it goes on FOREVER." 

We know that between the living and the 
dead there is a gulf which nothing can span but 
divine power. We do not know what life is, 
but we can readily detect the difference in that 
which is living and that which is not living, 
whether it be vegetable or animal, mineral or non- 
living matter. If -that be true, we turn imme- 
diately to the written Word of God to see if it 
manifests characteristics which are found only 
in living things. 

In the first place, there is a freshness about 
the Bible that we do not find in other books. 



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One may read it over and over again, and yet, 
upon taking it up again, it is just as new and 
fresh as if it had never been seen before. Other 
books are not that way. Books that men write 
we can get at the first reading, unless, perchance, 
there is a lack of clearness on the part of the 
writer, or lack of apprehension on the part of the 
reader. 

It is a remarkable fact that the Bible never 
becomes exhausted, nor acquires sameness ; never 
diminishes in its power of responsiveness to the 
inquiring soul. It is a fountain of living water, 
and though the fountain, with its topography of 
surroundings and setting, is the same, yet the 
water is always fresh to the thirsty, sin-sick soul. 

Another thing about the Bible is that it is 
always an up-to-date book. That is not true of 
books that men write. Text books are constantly 
changing, from the fact that men are advancing 
on all lines, and the books that served us last 
year are obsolete now, hence the demand for 
something better and more up to date. Not so 
the Bible! It is new to-day, and adjusts itself 
to the new environments and conditions of so- 
ciety and to times, and meets every demand of the 
immortal soul. It meets every new development 
of sin as fast as it comes up. As certainly as 



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it fit the times of St. Paul and was the antidote 
for the sin-burdened soul, so it meets every phase 
of sin in our day, and presents an adequate 
remedy. 

In all the history of the world, the Bible has 
been the leading Book of all books. Infidelity, 
some forty years ago lifted its puny hand against 
this mighty Book, and we heard much about the 
mistakes of Moses, also that the Book would 
not hold out with true science, etc. Then again, 
there was a tirade made on the miracles; still 
later, higher criticism has shown its small head; 
but the Bible, with its true science and its divine 
authority on the creation, is moving along in the 
untrammeled channel it has occupied through the 
centuries, to its goal, "The final consummation of 
all things." The world may pass away, but this 
Word will never pass away. The Bible mani- 
fests life itself in that it survives all the attempts 
of men and devils to destroy it. 

If there is a book on earth that is hated above 
other books, it is the Bible. Through the cen- 
turies it has been attacked from every quarter. 
In fact, its greatest enemy is a supernatural en- 
emy, and he has worked every conceivable plan 
he could through ingenious men to destroy it; 
but to-day there are more copies of it than there 



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ever were before this present time. It has out- 
lived the storms and ravages of men and devils, 
and it will continue so to do. 

The reason the Bible is so hated and hounded 
is simply because it is the only thing that assumes 
authority over man or imposes laws on him. This 
accounts for the hatred against it. Men want 
to run their own affairs. They do not want to 
be dictated to, nor made responsible to any one 
but themselves. The devil is persistently work- 
ing through high scholarship and poor theology 
to down the Book. Other books arouse no hatred 
or devils. If men do not like other books, they 
just simply let them alone. But here is a Book 
that even if men do let it alone, it does not let 
them alone. It presses its claims upon them and 
they simply cannot evade its demands. All the 
powers of earth and Hell combined, both political 
and ecclesiastical, have tried to do away with it, 
but to no avail. 

Since the establishment of the printing press, 
men have written many books against THE 
BOOK ; in fact, the best brains in the world have 
been enlisted to do away with it and to bring 
it into disrepute, but the Book was never revered 
by so many as to-day. 

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is that it reaches and searches the heart and life 
as no other book. From the moment one takes 
it up, there seems to be an air of authority and 
sympathy and gentleness of command that at 
once engages the attention, until, when it is laid 
aside, its power does not immediately leave the 
reader. 

When we read books that men write, we 
search for the thought of the author, but here 
is a book that, when we read it, searches not 
only our thoughts, but our hearts. It seems to 
fit our case exactly and to understand our need 
thoroughly. 

Another point of similarity between the writ- 
ten Word and the incarnate Word is that of 
nutrition. In John 6 : 33, Jesus says, "For the 
bread of God is He zvliich cometh down from 
Heaven, and giveth life unto the world.'* Again, 
in the forty-eighth verse, He says, ""/ am that 
bread of life." In Matthew 4 : 4, Jesus says, 
"Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every 
word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.'' 
As the bread sustains the physical body, so the 
Word of God sustains the spiritual. He VN^ho 
gives the life is the one who also sustains it. 
In verse 63, He says, ''The words that I speak 
unto you, they are spirit, and they are LIPE." 



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Of course the natural man CANNOT under- 
stand these words, nor has he any comprehen- 
sion of how Jesus can be that bread; neither can 
he know how He sustains the "inner man." 

So far as that is concerned, man has the pro- 
cess of physical nutrition, but he no more under- 
stands it than he does the spiritual process. We 
take food into these physical bodies, and it is 
chewed up and masticated and carried into the 
stomach, where the oxygen from the lungs cooks 
it into a cherry-red blood, and the heart valves 
throw it all through the body, and physical life 
is sustained. But the hoWj we do not understand. 

The green vegetation all around us knows 
how to extract the nitrogen from the earth, and 
the carbon from the carbon dioxide in the atmos- 
phere, and combine these in exactly the proper 
proportions ; with oxygen and hydrogen in water, 
with traces of lime, and ozmozone, etc., forming, 
with the aid of heat and light from the sun, living 
tissue suitable for man and beast, the proper food 
they need. We know that is true, but we do not 
understand the process. 

Just so with the Word of God; we devour 
it and somehow the soul of man takes it in and 
assimilates it, and though we do not understand 



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the process, yet the spiritual man is renewed from 
day to day. 

Dear reader, are you building on this LIV- 
ING WORD of God? If you are, it will make 
you that you will never fall. 



CHAPTER XII. 
Hoi.iNi:ss^ God's The:me. 

Heiavkn Is HoIvY. 

"Thou in Thy mercy hast led forth the people 
zvhich Thou hast redeemed: Thou hast guided 
them in Thy strength unto Thy holy habitation/' 
(Ex. 15:13.) 

''Therefore prophesy thou against them all 
these words, and say unto them, The Lord shall 
roar from on high, and utter His voice from His 
holy habitation/' (Jer. 25: 30.) 
God Is H01.Y. 

''Ye shall be holy: for I the Lord your God 
am holy/' (Lev. 19: 2.) 

"But as He which hath called you is holy, so 
be ye holy in all manner of conversation : Because 
it is zvritten, Be ye holy: for I am holy/' (I. 
Pet. i: 15, 16.) 
ANGKI.S Are: H01.Y. 

"For whosoever shall be ashamed of Me and 
of My words, of him shall the Son of man be 

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ashamed, zvlien Tie shall come in His own glory, 
and in His Father's, and of the holy angels/' 
(Luke 9: 26.) 

"The same shall drink of the wine of the 
wrath of God, zvhich is poured out without mix- 
ture into the cup of His indignation; and he shall 
he tormented with fire and brimstone in the pres- 
ence of the holy angels, and in the presence of 
the Lamb/' (Rev. 14: 10.) 
God Has A Holy People:. 

"And to make thee high above all nations 
zvhich He hath made, in praise, and in name, and 
in honor; and that thou mayest be an holy peo- 
ple unto the Lord thy God, as He hath spoken." 
(Deut. 26: 19.) 

"The Lord shall establish thee an holy people 
unto Himself, as He hath szvorn unto thee, if 
thou shalt keep the commandments of the Lord 
thy God, and walk in His ways." (Deut. 28 : 9.) 

"And they shall call them. The holy people. 
The redeemed of the Lord: and thou shalt be 
called. Sought out, A city not forsaken." (Isa. 
62: 12.) 

"And I heard the man clothed in linen, zvhich 
was upon the zvaters of the river, when he held up 
his right hand and his left hand unto heaven, and 
sware by Him that liveth for ever that it shall 



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be for a time, times, and an half; and when he 
shall have accomplished to scatter the power of 
the holy people!* (Dan. 12: 7.) 
God's Te:mple: Is HoIvY. 

''But the Lord is in His holy temple: let all 
the earth keep silence before Him,'' (Hab. 2 : 20.) 

''But as for me, I will come into Thy house 
in the multitude of Thy mercy : and in Thy fear 
will I worship toward Thy holy temple/' (Psa. 

5:70 

Isaiah's Vision Was God's Hoi,ine:ss. 

"In the year that king Uzziah died, I saw also 
the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted 
up, and His train filled the temple. Above it 
stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; 
with twain he covered his face, and with twain 
he covered his feet, and with twain he did Hy. 
And one cried unto another, and said. Holy, holy, 
holy is the Lord of hosts : the whole earth is full 
of His glory. And the posts of the door moved 
at the voice of him that cried, and the house 
was filled with smoke. Then said I, Woe is me! 
for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean 
lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of un- 
clean lips : for mine eyes have seen the King, the 
Lord of hosts. Then fiew one of the seraphims 
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he had taken with the tongs off the altar: And he 
laid it upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath 
touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, 
and thy sin purged.'* (Isa. 6: 1-7.) 
God CalIvS Us to Ho^inkss. 

In II. Timothy i : 9 we find that we are 
"called with a holy calling." This is indeed a 
high calling, for when we are holy we are like 
God, for God is holy. (Lev. 19: 2.) 

The greatest incentive in the whole range of ^ 
Scripture, to be holy, is the fact that God Him- 
self IS HOLY. 

If we are to live with Him through eternity 
in His holy habitation (Heaven), we must of ne- 
cessity BE HOLY, for to be otherwise in His 
presence would be Hell to the soul. Since we 
are called with a heavenly calling (Heb. 3:1), 
(to Heaven), we should be diligent to make our 
calling sure (11. Pet. i. 10), and see that we have 
the FITNESS to live with God in His holy habi- 
tation. Holiness is the necessary preparation for 
Heaven. Hence, when God says, "Prepare to 
meet thy God," He not only means for the sin- 
ner to repent and turn from his sins, but He 
also means for the Christian to seek that "holi- 
ness without which no man shall see the Lord/* 
(Heb. 12: 14.) 



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Since God has "COMMANDED" us to be 
holy (I. Pet. i: IS), and hath "CHOSEN" us 
to be holy (Eph. 1:4), and given us a specific 
"PROMISE" that we could have it and live it 
"ALL THE DAYS OF OUR LIFE" (Luke i : 
72-75), it looks as though we who claim to be 
His children, should have some interest in it, does 
it not? 

There can be no higher calling than unto God 
Himself. It puts the soul where it walks v/ith 
God as Enoch did. And as Abraham walked 
with God and was a stranger on earth, so it will 
separate you from the world until you will wear 
it as a loose garment ready any time, as Elijah 
did, to step into the chariot and be off for your 
permanent hom.e. 

This life lifts one above the world, until se- 
cret prayer and walks with God in nature's lonely 
solitude are sweeter than any other thing in this 
world. It holds the life so far above the tinsel 
and tawdry of this old world that "There's no 
thirsting for life's pleasures, nor adorning rich 
and gay; for I've found a richer treasure, one 
that fadeth not away." In other words, it lifts 
the soul so high above the things of the world, 
that it's magnetism and loadstone have no per- 
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When we think of being called to God Him- 
self, we immediately think of being conducted 
into His presence. What preparations we would 
make, and how interested we would be, if we 
knew that we were to be introduced into the 
presence of some king or some other great per- 
sonage of earth. We would want to be properly 
dressed, and have a familiarity with the rules of 
etiquette, and the usages of society, until we 
would be quite free and unembarrassed in that 
person's presence. 

How much vaster and greater the importance 
of being ready to be ushered into the presence 
of the King of kings when this life is ended; and 
doubly so, since this earthly life may end at any 
moment ! 

Reader, are YOU PREPARED NOW? 
Would you be perfectly free and unembarrassed 
in His august presence were you brought before 
Him within the next few hours? 



CHAPTER XIII. 
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Holiness is not a church, but a movement. 
Not a substitute, but a supplement. Not an or- 
ganization, but an organism. Not a body, but a 
soul. Not a reformation, but a revival. Not 
anarchy, but charity. Not selfish gratification, 
but unselfish service and love to all the house- 
hold of faith. 

The greatest conquest that has ever been 
waged in this world is the conquest of self, which 
every man of Adam's lost race, through the 
grace of Heaven, can secure for himself. 

Some people get the idea that sin is a small 
tiling, and though indeed it may be in some cases, 
it is capable of bringing on very great disaster 
of soul. Note the following that explains this 
point. 

A ship was once wrecked on the Irish coast. 
The captain was a careful one. Nor had the 
weather been of so severe a kind as to explain 

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the wide distance to which the vessel had swerved 
from her proper course. The ship wxnt down, 
but so much interest was attached to the disaster 
that a diver was sent down. Among other por- 
tions of the vessel that were examined was the 
compass ; that was swung on deck, and inside the 
compass-box was detected a bit of steel, which 
appeared to be the small point of a pocket-knife 
blade. 

It appeared that the day before the wreck, a 
sailor had been sent to clean the compass, had 
used his pocket knife in the process, and had un- 
consciously broken off the point and left it re- 
maining in the* box. The bit of knife-blade ex- 
erted its influence on the compass, and to a degree 
that deflected the needle from its proper bent, 
and spoilt it as an index of the ship's direction. 
That piece of knife blade wrecked the vessel. 

Even one trifling sin, as small as a broken 
knife-point, as it were, is able to rob the con- 
science of peace and happiness. 

Here are some preventatives to backsliding : 

Never neglect daily private prayer ; and when 
you pray, remember that God is present, and that 
He hears your prayers. (Heb. 11:6.) 

Never neglect daily private Bible reading; and 
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to you, and that you are to believe and act upon 
what He says. I believe all backsliding begins 
with the neglect of these two rules. (John 5 : 36.) 

Never let a day pass without trying to do 
something for Jesus. Every night reflect on 
what Jesus has done for you, and then ask your- 
self: "What am I doing for Him?" (Matt. 5: 
13-16.) 

If ever you are in doubt as to a thing being 
right or wrong, go to your room, kneel down 
and ask God's blessing upon it. (Col. 3: 17.) 
If you cannot do this, it is wrong. (Rom. 14: 

23.) 

Never take your Christianity from Christians, 

or argue that because such and such people do so 
and so, therefore you may. (11. Cor. 10: 12.) 
You are to ask yourself: "How would Christ 
act in my place?'' and do as He would do. (John 
10:27.) 

"If any man have not the Spirit (or mind) of 
Christ, he is none of His" 

Reader, did you ever stop to think that the 
mind of Jesus is — 

An humble mind; welcoming the most menial 
service for others ? 

An obedient mind; doing always the things 
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An unselfish mind; seeking not His own glory, 
but the glory of Him who sent Him? 

A self-denying mind; even laying down His 
life for others ? 

A self -renouncing mind; relinquishing the 
glory that He had with the Father before the 
world was, that He might save souls? 

A missionary mind; pouring His life out as 
a love-offering to save even His enemies? 

A prayerful mind; leading Him to spend 
whole nights alone in prayer ? 

A compassionate mind; manifested in deeds 
of love and acts of alleviation of the sufferings 
of those around Him? 

A sympathetic mind; weeping with those who 
wept? 

A heroic mind; rebuking false shepherds of 
His day, and facing and putting to flight com- 
bined armies of earth and Hell in their fearful 
onset against Him? 

Reader, have you a kindred mind? The 
mind of Christ is imparted in regeneration; and 
everything in the human heart which is contrary 
to the mind of Christ is expelled in the second 
work by the sanctifying baptism with the Holy 
Ghost. 



CHAPTER XIV. 
R Prayer for H^ai^thy Christians. 

Text: ''And this I pray, that your love may 
abound yet more and more in knowledge and in 
all judgment; that ye may approve things that are 
excellent; that ye may be sincere and without 
offense till the day of Christ; being filled with 
the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus 
fhrist, unto the glory and praise of God." (Phil. 
1:9-11.) 

This is the prayer of St. Paul for the Philip- 
pian church. It is the vital breath and heart cry 
of the true pastor for his people. To paraphrase 
it, put it in my own language, and give the sense 
of the text in the original, would be something 
like the following : 

This I pray, that the divine love may over- 
flow your whole being, in order that all your spir- 
itual senses may be healthy, and quick, and sharp, 
in order that ye may readily discern worldly, and 
spiritual things, having perfect heart knowledge ; 

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and be as clear as a sunbeam or like strained 
honey in your own soul, and be no stumbling- 
block in any one's way, till Jesus comes for you; 
and filled to overflowing with the fruit ofethe Holy 
Spirit, which is to the praise of God, our Father. 

To my mind, this is a most remarkable prayer. 

Divine love is to the soul what blood is to the 
physical man. A healthy man physically has 
good blood. He works and exercises himself and 
creates an appetite, until when he comes to the 
table he feeds from both sides, and should an in- 
valid be at the table who does not want to eat, he 
pays no attention to him, but goes right on and 
eats, as though he were not there. 

So the healthy Christian ; he exercises himself 
and works at the trade, reads the Bible, prays in 
secret, talks salvation to those with whom he 
comes in contact, until when he comes to the 
Lord's table he has an appetite, and he feeds 
from both sides, and should there chance to be 
sitting alongside of him a spiritual dyspeptic who 
does not only not partake of the spiritual spread, 
but turns up his nose at it, the truly healthy Chris- 
tian goes right on and eats as though the weak- 
ling was not on the face of the earth. 

The burden of PauFs prayer was for healthy 
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the five senses as truly as the natural man has 
them. He can see, smell, taste, feel and hear. 

These senses are given us in the physical body 
for guards. 

I do not have to leap over a precipice to know 
whether or not it is one. When I find a bottle 
of liquid that has cross-bones and a skull on it, 
I do not have to drink it to find out whether or 
not it is poison. And so, my brother, when you 
are a healthy Christian, you can smell the poison 
and rotten theology that some would-be theol- 
ogians are trying to put out up in the New Eng- 
land section. New Thought, along with Chris- 
tian Science, and Unitarianism, will not color 
your belief in the old-fashioned Gospel as it has 
some, for you do not have to read it to know 
whether or not it is poison, for the Lord has 
given you some sense as well as religion; and 
your spiritual senses will tell you to get as far 
away from that poison as you can. 

You will be as clear as a sunbeam in your own 
soul, or like strained honey; clean clear through, 
and clear through clean, having that intuitive 
knowledge of soul that immediately puts you on 
your guard and protects you from the world and 
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that trinity of Hell under your feet continually. 
Hallelujah ! 

And you will not cause any one to stumble, 
while on the other hand you will help lift a fallen 
world to God. 

You will be full of the fruit of the Holy Spirit. 
Love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, good- 
ness, faith, meekness, temperance ; no law against 
these. Notice, filled to overflowing. 

This will bring praise to God the Father. 



CHAPTER XV. 

What is Sin? 

'^The Greek word for sin, hamarteea, meant 
originally, 'the missing of a mark/ When ap- 
plied to moral things, the idea is somewhat sim- 
ilar; it is missing the true end of life, and so 
it is used as a general term for sin. It means 
both the act of sinning and the result of sin it- 
self." (Hinds and Noble.) 

Then again, ''Sin is any thought, word, omis- 
sion or desire, contrary to the will of God. Sin 
is any want of conformity to, or transgression 
of the law/' (I. John 3:4.) (Cruden's Con- 
cordance. ) 

Dr. A. M. Hills, on this point says : 

"The word sin designates : 

"i. Actual transgressions, willful acts of dis- 
obedience to a known law of God. 'Sin is the 
transgression of the law/ It is very frequently 
used in the plural, as 'sins,' 'iniquities,' 'transgres- 

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sions.' It is for this kind of sin that every man's 
conscience holds him directly responsible. 

"2. The word 'sin' is often used, without any 
adjective and, as scholars who have studied most 
carefully tell us, always in the singular number, 
to designate a sinful state, not an act. 

"This second use of the word refers to that 
sinful state of our moral nature brought upon 
each of us by our connection with a sinful race. 
It is that natural lack of conformity of our whole 
being to the moral law. A small Greek lexicon 
of the New Testament lies before me. The first 
three definitions of a common Greek word for sin 
are 'error, offence, sin,' but the next three defini- 
tions are, 'a principle or cause of sin; proneness 
to sin ; sinful propensity.' These two sets of def- 
initions of a Greek noun in an unbiased diction- 
ary prove that this double use of the word 'sin' 
in the New Testament is no fanciful notion of 
the author, but the actual Bible usage. The 
Apostle John used the word in the first sense 
when he wrote: 'If we confess our sins, He is 
faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins/ 
(I. John 1:9, R. V.) He used the word in the 
second sense when he wrote: 'All unrighteous- 
ness is sin/ (T. John 5: 17.) The same Greek 
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word in this second sense when he wrote of 'the 
sin that dwelleth in me/ (Rom. 7: 17.)'' 

Let us notice some of the definitions the Bible 
gives it: 

A GRIE^VOUS MALADY^ CONTAMINATING THEJ 

WHOi.^ o^ man's be:ing. (Isa. 1 : 4-6; Rom. 3: 
10-18.) 

''Ah sinful nation, a people laden with in- 
iquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are cor- 
rupters; they have forsaken the Lord, they have 
provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they 
are gone away backzvard. Why should ye be 
stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more; 
the zvhole head is sick, and the whole heart faint, 

"From the sole of the foot even unto the head 
there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and 
bruises, and putrifying sores : they have not been 
closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with 
ointment.** 

A CIvOUD WHICH HIDES THE: FACE OF GOD. 

"But your iniquities have separated between 
you and your God, and yours sins have hid 
His face frow^ you, that He will not hear,** (Isa. 
59:2.) 

A TYRANNICAL OWNER. 

"And it yieldeth much increase unto the kings 
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also they Jiave dominion over our bodies and 
over our cattle, at their pleasure, and we are in 
great distress" (Neh. 9: 37.) 

A BINDING CORD THAT HOI.DS ITS VICTIM I^AST. 

"His own iniquities shall take the wicked him- 
self, and he shall he holden with the cords of his 
sins," (Prov. 5: 22.) 

A DISTURBE:r OF REST. 

"There is no soundness in my flesh because 
of Thine anger; neither is there any rest in my 
bones because of my sin" (Psa. 38: 3.) 

A ROBBER WHICH STRIPS AND STARVE:S THE) SOUIv. 

"Your iniquities have turned away these 
things, and your sins have withholden good 
things from you" (Jer. 5 : 25.) 

A PI.AGUI: THAT BRINGS DESOI.ATION IN ITS WAKE). 

"Therefore will I make thee sick in smiting 
thee, in making thee desolate because of thy sins" 
(Mic. '6: 13.) 

A GIN SET TO OVERTHROW THE SINNER. 

"But wickedness overthroweth the sinner" 
(Prov. 13: 6.) 

A RECORD WRITER. 

"The sin of Judah is written with a pen of 
iron — it is graven upon the table of their heart" 
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A sure: de:t^ctivk. 

''Be sure your sin will Und you out." (Num. 
32:23.) 

A BETRAYING PRESE^NCi: THAT ""wiLIv OUT/' 

''Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Because 
ye have made your iniquity to he remembered, 
in that your transgressions are discovered, so 
that in all your doings your sins do appear; he- 
cause, I say, that ye are come to rememhrance, 
ye shall he taken with the hand/' (Ezek. 21 : 24.) 

A HINDRANCE TO PRAYER. 

"If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord 
will not hear me" (Psa. 66: 18.) 

Sin broke the heart of God, and robbed 
Heaven of its brightest jewel; it put our fore- 
parents out of the Garden of Eden; it has dug 
every grave, and built every jail, ruined every 
life and blasted every hope of Adam's lost race, 
and we are all wretched, and miserable, and 
blind, and naked before God; and until He takes 
it out of our hearts, we will never find any rest 
here nor hereafter. 

Thank God! there is a way out of sin. 
"Though your sins he as scarlet, they shall he as 
white as snow; though they he red like crimson, 
they shall he as wool" (Isa. i : 18.) 

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for Me zvith all your heart/' ''Ask, and it shall 
be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, 
and it shall he opened unto you" 

"Let the wicked forsake his way, and the un- 
righteous man his thoughts, and let him return 
to the Lord, and He will have mercy on him, 
and to our God, for He will ABUNDANTLY 
PARDON/' 

''Though ye have lien among the pots, yet 
shall ye he as the zvings of a dove covered with 
silver, and her feathers with yellow gold/* 

Sinner friend, always remember that there 
is a way out of sin for you! Remember that 
Jesus died for you, and that God the Father loves 
you, and that Heaven is interested in you. Thou- 
sands of people to-day who are saved and shin- 
ing for God were once in sin, and as far away 
from mercy as you are, and if God is no respecter 
of persons. He will take and save you as quickly 
as He has others. 

Sin, like the lead weights to the swimmer, 
will take you down and down, farther and farth- 
er from God and mercy. 

Oh, "Turn ye, turn ye; for why will ye die?" 



CHAPTER XVL 
"How Shai.1. W^ Escape; I^ We; N^gi^kct So 

Gre:aT SAIvVATlONf' 

Our salvation is great from the fact that the 
great God planned it. Again, it is great from 
the fact that it is an absolute cure for the awful 
disease of sin. 

Since man is a rational being, and endowed 
riage vow, the introduction of moral evil through 
with the sense of responsibility, when he looks 
into the Book of God, he immediately feels the 
imprint of such conceptions as the absolute su- 
premacy of God, the goodness of the creation, 
the high destiny of man, the sanctity of the mar- 
an abuse of freedom, and the tendency of apostasy 
to pass on from bad to worse unless met by 
powerful remedial agencies. 

While the Bible shows man the dreadful 
disease and its dire effect on the human family, 
it also holds up to him the great remedy which 
an all-wise God has prepared. While it exalts 

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the obligation of divine law, it magnifies the 
depth of divine mercy. While it opens up an 
entrancing view of the life beyond, it does not 
neglect to enforce the duty of bringing the King- 
dom of Heaven into this world. It emphasizes 
the ethical and the specifically religious life we 
are to live here on this earth. 

The salvation that God offers to a lost world 
is great from the fact of what it cost. Anything 
we have in this world that is worth anything 
cost us something. The very freedom and liberty 
of our country was bought with the price of 
blood, and the very mention of it takes us back 
with Washington to Valley Forge, with Grant 
to Fredericksburg, Five Forks and Appomattox. 
But when we speak of freedom from sin, 
it takes us back with Jesus to the Garden of Geth- 
semane, where the greatest battle of all the ages 
was successfully fought. It cost God His only 
Son to free the human family from sin. 

Again, this salvation is great in its nature. 
It cleanses from ALL sin. No other remedy 
will. It will take the drunkard and make a 
sober man of him. It will destroy the vicious 
appetites fastened on men, and remove the tastes 
and desires for everything abnormal. 

It is great in what it has saved us from. It 



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has not only saved us from an awful Hell in 
the hereafter, but it saves us from a life on 
earth of hell in our hearts and homes. It re- 
lieves pain and sorrow and stops the sanguinary 
flow of grief. It binds up the broken-hearted, 
looses the prisoners, and sets the captives free. 
It puts people in better society, it puts better 
clothes on their back and more money in their 
pockets. 

It is great because it is the only thing that 
will bring true wealth and happiness in this world, 
and that which is to come. 

It is great because it has more samples on 
exhibition of men and women who were once 
wretched and lost, but nozv are happy and saved, 
than any other so-called religion of the world, 
such as the vain philosophies and false sciences 
of men. Nothing in the world equals the religion 
of the Bible, when it comes to lifting humanity 
up and holding it to a permanent state of happi- 
ness here and in the hereafter. 

It is great because of what it saves us to — 
not only to blessings untold in this world, but 
to a glorious Heaven after this life. 

How shall we escape if we NEGLECT it? 
The order of backsliding is NEGLECT, RE- 
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hope. The question answers itself. There is 
no escape. God has prepared a Hell for the 
devil and his angels, and all who do not want 
this great salvation will go there. There is an 
awful Hell of fire to escape, and the eternal 
question is, Will we escape f God has made a 
way. Reader, will you avail yourself of it if 
you have not done so already? 

Neglect deadens the finer senses of the soul 
until there is no compunction of conscience, and 
gets one to where the Holy Spirit can make no 
im.pression. 

Reverie oi^ a Lost Soui,. 

I am nearing the gates of death. Shadows 
full of phantom shapes stare at me on every 
side. Images of terror in the future dimly rise 
and beckon me on. Deeds of the past stretch 
out their skinny hands to push me forward. I 
am dying not unattended. Despair mocks me. 
Agony tenders to my parched lips her fiery cup. 
Remorse feels for my conscience and rends it, 
while regret clutches at my memory. 

My guilty soul is swept on the billowy blast 
of that everlasting storm which rains perpetual 
fire and brimstone in a deviFs Hell forever. On 
the black crested waves of damnation I lift my 



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fruitless cries for mercy. I am sinking to rise 
no more. Oh, ye liquid waves of damnation, 
swallow me up and hide me from the needle eye 
of a holy God. In the bosom of this storm I sink 
to rise no more. Let my very memory be blotted 
out of earth and Heaven. Farewell forever. 



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CHAPTER XVII. 
Placing th^ Standard too High. 

One among the many devices that Satan and 
his alHes use in fighting holiness, is setting the 
standard too high. When people do this they 
turn around and deny both tlie doctrine and 
the experience, and say it is of no use to try 
to live something we cannot. 

The saintly Fletcher said that it was one of 
Satan's devices to drive Christian holiness out 
of the Church, to get people to put it so high as 
to be above Scripture, and above possible attain- 
ment. Those who hate Christian holiness are 
the ones who will likely describe it as some- 
thing too angelic for this life, and then repu- 
diate the idea of anyone's having it. Here are 
a few points in which Christian perfection is 
often placed too high. 

When persons think that Christian holiness 
consists in living a faultless life, judged of by 

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our neighbors, that is putting it too high, and 
beyond all Scripture commands or examples. 

Divine grace enables us to "live blameless 
before God," to "please God,'' and to "have a 
heart perfect toward God," but there is no Scrip- 
ture teaching us that we can live faultlessly as 
judged of by men. 

Jesus lived the perfect life, and yet there 
is no one who was more misunderstood than 
He. The same is true of Job. The immaculate 
Son of God was judged by His fellow-country- 
men as a wicked deceiver and possessed of the 
devil. There is not a single character mentioned 
in all the Bible who lived a faultless life, judged 
by their contemporaries and neighbors, hence 
it is very foolish to represent Christian perfec- 
tion as being something so high as to be faultless, 
in the eyes of the carnally minded. Take the 
case of Job. God pronounced Job to be "a perfect 
man," and up to this hour God has never taken 
His word back, yet Job's three friends, and his 
wife and servants and Satan severely condemiued 
him, and thousands of small-sized preachers to- 
day condemn him as being a backslider. But 
through at all God, who knew Job perfectly, 
called him a perfect man, and made all other 



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prophets in the end go forward for prayers and 
had Job pray for them. 

It is putting Christian hoHness too high to 
suppose it places anyone above temptation. 
Many rehgious people are so ignorant of spirit- 
ual things as to think that temptation in some 
way implies the existence of sin in the heart. 
There is a theology which locates sin in the human 
body, contrary to the teaching of Scripture, which 
shows sin has its proper locality in the heart, 
and consequently such people insist that Chris- 
tian perfection puts one above temptation, and 
therefore they say it is impossible to obtain it 
in this life. Adam and Eve were tempted when 
they were holy, proving that people with per- 
fectly pure hearts are liable to temptation. The 
spotless Son of God, who knew no sin, "wag 
tempted in all points like as we are," and more 
than that the Bible says, "He suffered, being 
tempted.'' This proves that human beings can 
be free from all sin, and yet be tempted. Hence, 
to say that Christian holiness is a state above 
temptation, is putting it beyond the Bible. It 
is no sin to be tempted, but it is a sin to yield 
to temptation. Hence we are wisely taught to 
pray that our Heavenly Father would "lead us 
not into temptation.'' 



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Again. It is placing the standard too high 
when one says, "We get to where we cannot sin/' 
Christian perfection does not take away our 
free agency. The very fact of probation means 
we are yet on trial. No, holiness does not put 
us where we are not able to sin, but it does 
put us where we ARE ABLE NOT TO SIN. 
The person who goes around bragging on the 
fact that he has yet to see the first perfect Chris- 
tian is like a man who, in the presence of Mr. 
Wesley, was denouncing Christian perfection, 
and proudly said he would like to see a perfect 
man once. And Mr. Wesley replied, "If I knew 
a perfect man, I would not show him to you, 
because, like Herod, you would seek the young 
child's life to destroy it." God did not say to 
Abraham, "Walk before your neighbors and be 
perfect," but He did say, 'Walk thou before Me, 
and be thou perfect," How consoling to know 
that we are to live and walk before God with 
our hearts established unblameable in holiness all 
the days of our life, and to know that "He is 
able to present us faultless before the presence 
of His glory, with exceeding joy." 



CHAPTER XVIII. 
A Character Study oi^ Jacob. 

"And Jacob zvent out from Beer-sheha, and 
went toward Haran. 

''And he lighted upon a certain place, and tar- 
ried there all night, because the sun was set; and 
he took of the stones of that place and put them 
for his pillows, and lay down in that place to sleep, 

"And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up 
on the earth, and the top of it reached to Heaven, 
and behold the angels of God ascending and de- 
scending on it. 

"And, behold, the Lord stood above it, and 
said, I am the Lord God of Abraham thy father, 
and the God of Isaac : the land whereon thou liest; 
to thee will I give it, and to thy seed; 

"And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, 
and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to 
the east, and to the north, and to the sottth; and 
in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of 
the earth be blessed. 

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"And, behold, I am with thee, and will keep 
thee in all places whither thou goest, and will 
bring thee again into this land; for I will not 
leave thee, until I have done that which I have 
spoken to thee of, 

"And Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and he 
said. Surely the Lord is in this place; and I knew 
it not. 

"And he zvas afraid, and said. How dreadful 
is this place! this is none other but the house of 
God, and this is the gate of Heaven, 

"And Jacob rose up early in the morning, and 
took the stone that he had put for his pillow, and 
set it up for a pillar, and poured oil upon the 
top of it, 

"And he called the name of that place Beth-el: 
but the name of that city was called Luz at the 
first. '' (Gen. 28: 10-19.) 

In the forty-eighth chapter of Genesis, at 
the third verse, Jacob testifies to his son Joseph, 
*'God appeared unto me in the land of Luz and 
BLESSED me." Notice, the same promise is 
handed down from Abraham, **And thy seed 
shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt 
spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and 
to the north, and to the south ; and in thee and 
in thy seed shall all the families of the earth 



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be blessed. And behold, I AM WITH THEE 
AND WILL KEEP THEE IN ALL PLACES 
WHITHER THOU GOEST, AND WILL 
BRING THEE AGAIN INTO THIS LAND." 
This promise God faithfully kept and did bring 
him again to this land. 

And God did go with him and blessed him 
whithersoever he went. He went from Luz to 
his uncle Laban and worked for him upwards 
of twenty years. He served seven years and, 
according to the contract, should have had Rachel 
for his wife, but his uncle deceived him and 
had him work seven other years, and not only 
that but changed his wages ten times. Notice 
how persistently and patiently Jacob works on, 
knowing that he has God's promise back of him. 
Notice how God prospers him and blesses him. 
God blessed him and multiplied his cattle and 
enriched him in spite of his envious uncle. Dear 
reader, if you are in the will of God and are 
backed with God's promise, you will prosper in 
spite of all the enemies that shall rise up against 
you. 

Jacob w^ould have lived and died working for 
•his uncle, if Laban could have had his way con- 
cerning him. Here is another picture, of God's 
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time to go, Pharaoh forbade it and worked every- 
way he could to keep them under his tyrannical 
power. Even after they had started, he fol- 
lowed them to the sea, but God defeated him. 
Here Laban follows Jacob in a rage when Jacob 
starts to leave. Notice, he accuses Jacob cjf 
slipping off and not giving him a chance to kiss 
his sons and daughters good-bye. He became 
very affectionate all of a sudden. Yes, he "might 
have sent them away with mirth and song, 
with tabret and with harp.'' He might, and 
then again he might not. Our enemies get very 
good and sometimes very religious when they 
see that they cannot have their way with us any 
longer. Pharaoh said, when he saw that he 
could not bluff Moses, "Go ye, serve the Lord; 
only let your flocks and your herds be stayed; 
let your little ones go with you." Yes, take the 
children along and have a three days' outing in 
the woods, and I will take care of your flocks; 
only do not go very far away, Moses said, 
"There shall not a hoof be left behind." 

After all Laban's wrath, he had to admit that 
the "God of your fathers" "spake unto me yes- 
ter night, saying. Take thou heed that thou speak 
not to Jacob either good or bad." 

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things. Notice Jacob's defense in the following 
Scriptures : 

'What is my trespass? what is my sin? that 
thou hast so hotly pursued after me, 

''Whereas thou hast searched all my stuff, 
what hast thou found of all thy household stuff? 
set it here before my brethren and thy brethren, 
that they may judge betwixt us both, 

''This twenty years have I been with thee; thy 
ewes and thy she-goats have not cast their young, 
and the rams of thy flock have I not eaten. 

"That which was torn of beasts I brought not 
unto thee; I bare the loss of it; of my hand didst 
thou require it, whether stolen by day, or stolen 
by night. 

"Thus I was; in the day the drought con- 
sumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep 
departed from mine eyes. 

"Thus have I been twenty years in thy house; 
I served thee fourteen years for thy two daugh- 
ters, and six years for thy cattle; and thou hast 
changed my wages ten times. 

"Except the God of my father, the God of 
Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had been with 
me, surely thou hadst sent me away now empty. 
God hath seen mine affliction and the labor of 
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*^And Jacob went on his way, and the angels 
of God met him/' Anything along here that 
looks like Jacob was a backslider or a sinner? 
Nay, verily ! Remember God's promise to him in 
the twenty-eighth chapter and the fifteenth verse ? 
'1 AM WITH THEE AND WILL KEEP 
THEE/' Surely God had kept him and His 
smile was upon him, as we see in the case of 
His rebuking Laban. Child of God, no matter 
how much it may appear on the surface that God 
has forgotten you, and no matter how people 
may be against you, if you are right at head- 
quarters, keep going, God will be with you to 
deliver you. You will notice in Jacob's life (and 
it is true in every man's and woman's life who 
walks with God and fears Him) that he went 
right from one test to another, and never did 
until the day of his death get to where he had 
things easy and no more trials. If we go with 
God to Heaven, we will be hounded by our ene- 
mies and trials on every hand. 

Nov/ Jacob comes to a severe test, that of 
meeting his brother Esau. 

Notice his prayer to God on this occasion: 
"And Jacob said, O God of my father Abraham, 
and God of my father Isaac, the Lord which 
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thy kindred, and I will deal WELL with thee.'* 
Notice, God commanded him and told him to re- 
turn to his own country and He would deal well 
with him. Jacob said to his servants : 

''On this manner shall ye speak unto Esau, 
when ye find him. 

"And say ye moreover, Behold, thy servant 
Jacob is behind us. For he said, I will appease 
him zvith the present that goeth before me, and 
afterzvard I will see his face; per adventure he 
will accept of me. 

''So went the present over before him: and 
himself lodged that night in the company. 

"And he rose up that night, and took his two 
wives, and his two women servants, and his eleven 
sons, and passed over the ford Jabbok. 

"And he took them, and sent them over the 
brook, and sent over that he had. 

"And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled 
a man with him until the breaking of the day. 

"And when he saw that he prevailed not 
against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh; 
and the hollozv of Jacob's thigh was out of joint, 
as he wrestled zvith him. 

"And he said, Let me go, for the day break- 
eth. And he said, I will not let thee go, except 
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''And he said unto him, What is thy name? 
And he said, J-acob, 

''And he said, Thy name shall he called no 
more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou 
power with God and with men, and hast prevailed. 

"And Jacob asked him, and said. Tell me, I 
pray thee, thy name. And he said, Wherefore 
is it that thou dost ask after my name? And he 
blessed him there. 

"And Jacob called the name of the place 
Peniel : for I have seen God face to face, and my 
life is preserved. 

"And as he passed over Penuel the sun rose 
upon him, and he halted upon his thigh. 

"Therefore the children of Israel eat not of 
the sinezv which shrank, which is upon the hol- 
low of the thigh, unto this day; because he touched 
the hollow of Jacob's thigh in the sinew that 
shrank.'' (Gen. 32:20-32.) 

Here, some of our best scHoIars tell us, is 
where Jacob was sanctified. He consecrated all 
he had and was left alone all night in prayer. 
'^And he said, Thy name shall be called no more 
Jacob, but Israel ; for as a prince hast thou power 
with God, and with men, and hast prevailed." 
This is what the man or angel said to him when 
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Jacob said, ''/ have seen God face to face/' 

That morning as the sun rose, Jacob rose up 
with victory all over his face. He had prayed 
THROUGH. 

"And Esau ran to meet him and embraced 
him, and fell on his neck and kissed him, and 
they wept." What a scene ! Keep in mind these 
words: "I am with thee, and I will keep thee, 
whithersoever thou goest." This is the key to 
success in any life. 

Esau accepted Jacob's present and went one 
way and Jacob came to "Shalem — and he erected 
an altar there." Notice the faithfulness of this 
man in erecting an altar everywhere he goes and 
calling on the name of the Lord. The old-fash- 
ioned family altar will keep one in touch with 
Heaven, and the God of Abraham will be with 
you. 

''And God said unto Jacob, Arise, go up to 
Bethel, and dwell there; and make there an altar 
unto God, that appeared unto thee when thou 
Heddest from the face of Esau thy brother, 

"Then Jacob said unto his household, and to 
all that were with him. Put away the strange gods 
that are among you, and be clean, and change 
your garments : 

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7viU make there an altar unto God, who answered 
me in the day of my distress, and was with me 
in the zvay which I went. 

''And they gave unto Jacob all the strange 
gods which were in their hand, and all their ear- 
rings zvhich were in their ears; and Jacob hid 
them under the oak which was by Shechem. 

''And they journeyed: and the terror of God 
was upon the cities that were round about them, 
and they did not pursue after the sons of Jacob/' 

Notice, the terror of God was on all the cities 
round about them. After this we are told that 
"Jacob dwelt in the land wherein his father was 
a stranger, in the land of Canaan." 

Then we are told that when he sent Joseph 
to Shechem, to see how his brethren were do- 
ing with the sheep, his brethren took Joseph and 
sold him to some merchantmen of Midian, who 
took him down into Egypt and there sold him to 
Potiphar, an officer in Pharaoh^s court and a cap- 
tain of the guard. This was another severe trial 
in the life of Jacob. 

No matter how true one is, it does not ex- 
empt him from trials and difficulties in life. 
Jacob said Joseph's being taken away would bring 
him down to the grave in sorrov/. How true 
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thing that he thinks he cannot get over and he 
almost despairs, but later finds that it was the 
providence of God to lead him to better fields of 
usefulness. 

God knew that the famine was coming on 
and the only way to preserve His people was to 
let Joseph be sold down into Egypt, and by this 
open a way for all to come. Many times we have 
to give up the Benjamin of our soul, and the 
idol of our heart, but it means that out yonder 
somewhere we shall strike the country where 
there will be no more sorrow or famine. God 
gave Jacob back his boy, with a land of plenty 
for all, in the bargain. How dark it must have 
been in Jacob's life when his son, that he loved 
as dearly as his own life's blood, was ruthlessly 
snatched from him and he did not know what had 
become of him. And then to think, it was his 
own sons that had deceived him thus ! When the 
sons of Jacob came to tell him they had found 
Joseph, the Word tells us that he fainted, for he 
believed them not. "But when he saw the wag- 
ons which Joseph had sent to carry him, the spirit 
of Jacob revived. And Israel said, 'It is enough, 
I will go.' " Many times we have to see the wag- 
ons that God sends around before we can believe 
Him. 



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'^And Israel took his journey with all that he 
had and came to Beer-sheha, and offered sacrifices 
unto the God of his father Isaac, 

'^And God spake unto Israel in the visions of 
the night, and said, lacob, lacoh. And he said, 
Here am I. 

^'And he said, I am God, the God of thy fa- 
ther : fear not to go down into Egypt; for I will 
there make of thee a great nation : 

*^7 will go down with thee into Egypt; and 
I will also surely bring thee up again; and loseph 
shall put his hand upon thine eyes. 

''And lacoh rose up from Beer-sheba: and the 
sons of Israel carried Jacob their father, and their 
little ones, and their wives, in the wagons which 
Pharaoh had sent to carry him. 

"And they took their cattle, and their goods, 
which they had gotten in the land of Canaan, and 
came into Egypt, Jacc^b, and all his seed with him : 

''His sons, and his sons' sons with him, his 
daughters, and his sons' daughters, and all his 
seed brought he with him into Egypt." 

We are told how that he lived in Egypt sev- 
enteen years and God prospered him. In his 
last hours he called his son Joseph and told him 
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the Lord which redeemed him from ALL evil 
(referring to the time when he was before the 
city of Ltiz, where God saved him) would bless 
the lads; then he called all his sons around him, 
and gave them his parting blessing, and foretold 
that that should come to pass in each of their 
lives, and in his very last words said : 

''I am to he gathered unto my people : bury me 
with my fathers in the cave that is in the Held of 
Ephron the Hittite, 

''In the cave that is iii the field of Machpelah, 
which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, 
which Abraham bought with the field of Ephron 
the Hittite for a possession of a burying-place, 

"There they buried Abraham and Sarah his 
wife; there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his 
wife; and there I buried Leah, 

''The purchase of the Held and of the cave that 
is therein was from the children of Heth. 

"And when lacob had made an end of com- 
manding his sons, he gathered up his feet into the 
bed, and yielded up the ghost, and was gathered 
unto his people," 

Then we are told that Joseph and his breth- 
ren went up and buried him in the cave Mach- 
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buried. Thus ends one of the most remarkable 
lives of the Old Testament, when it comes to the 
trials and vicissitudes of life. 



CHAPTER XIX. 
Seeing God. 

"Blessed are the pure in heart : for they shall 
see God" (Matt. 5:8.) 

"Follow peace with all men, and holiness, 
without which no man shall see the Lord.'' ( Heb. 
12:14.) 

The reader will note that the thought brought 
out in these two passages of Scripture is that 
of seeing God. 

''They shall see God.'' Here is blessedness 
above all other bliss. This is the earnest, con- 
suming desire of every heart. When Philip said 
to the Master, "Lord, show us the Father, and it 
sufficeth us," he gave utterance to the prayer 
which has burned in the hearts of patriarchs and 
prophets, saints and apostles, in all ages of the 
world. 

This is the irrepressible demand of our intel- 
lectual and moral nature; we cannot come to 
anchor in this universe without Him. We drift 

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on the tide of our restless yearnings and painful 
experiences, until there comes the vision of that 
Presence whom the eye never saw, the ear never 
heard, the hand never felt ; that invisible presence 
named "God/' It was the passionate longing of 
Moses in the mount: "I beseech Thee, show me 
Thy glory !'' It was the breathing of the Psalm- 
ist's life : "My soul thirsteth for God, yea, for the 
living God ; when shall I come and appear before 
Him ?" It was the second vision of Isaiah, when 
he "saw the Lord sitting upon a throne high and 
lifted up, and His train filled the temple." It was 
the glory of Ezekiel's rapture. It was the pro- 
mised bliss of Simeon, that he should see God's 
Anointed. It was the peculiar favor bestowed 
upon the Apostles : "They beheld His glory, the 
glory as of the Only Begotten of the Father, full 
of grace and truth." It is our blessedness, if 
we are pure in heart. Purity of heart gives 
the vision of God. 

HOW CAN wK st^ niMf 
I would say first, not by the senses. Sight 
cannot take in the essence of things. The eye 
takes note of form and color, but not of the in- 
ward and spiritual. One cannot see gravitation, 
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and as it swings the planets and spheres through 
space. You cannot see Hfe; you may behold its 
manifestations throbbing in the insect, beating 
in the pulses of the sparrow, and in the flushed 
cheek and beaming eye and bounding step of one 
you love ; but the mystic principle itself you can- 
not see. You cannot see your friend; you may 
discern his visible form and features, but his in- 
ner character, the qualities of mind and heart 
which make him your friend, you cannot see. 
So you cannot see God by the senses, for the 
Infinite One does not appear in finite form. He 
has not shape and color, and can be seen only 
by the spirit. Just as the blind in the physical 
realm cannot behold objects that may surround 
them, so impurity shuts out the vision of God 
from the soul. Notice, the pure in heart see God, 

The deaf hear not the strains of music or the 
loud chorus of the sea. The selfish see not the 
beauty of benevolence or the unchaste the beauty 
of purity; so the heart that is unholy sees not the 
Divine. The eternal purity fades from the view 
of him whose soul loves only the carnal. But to 
the pure the vision is given, and the poorest, the 
humblest may come to this sublimest knowledge 
in the universe — the knowledge of God. 

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When the divine Man of Nazareth says, "Blessed 
are they that mourn : for they shall be comforted. 
Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the 
earth. Blessed are they which do hunger and 
thirst after righteousness : for they shall be filled/' 
He does not mean in the next life merelv, but in 
this; so the pure in heart, by virtue of their 
purity, come at once to the vision of God. 

GOD SKE)N IN HIS WORKS. 

The pure in heart can see God in His works. 
The whole visible creation around us embodies 
the thought of God, and His autograph is writ- 
ten on the stars and emblazoned in the sun, 
painted in the blue dome of heaven and seen 
where diamonds pour from the granite lips of 
some beautiful waterfall. 

Like the old dervish in the Eastern tale, who, 
after he had rubbed his eyes with a fine ointment 
given him, saw flashing diamonds, brilliant rubies 
and emeralds, where before he had seen nothing 
but bare rocks and dull earth, so the pure in 
heart see what other eyes cannot see, and walk 
through the world as a home where the Father's 
portrait hangs even upon the walls, and where 
upon every stairway and every corridor are the 
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GOD SttN IN HIS SON. 

We see God in the person of His dear Son. 
How He has loved us and washed us in His own 
precious blood ! We see His face everywhere we 
turn; we hear His tender voice and He never 
leaves us nor forsakes us. "Behold, I am with 
you alway, even unto the end of the world/' 

And there is not only a present but a future 
realization. There are yet the goal and crown. 
There is yet an open vision, the immediate pres- 
ence of the King in His beauty. The present 
disclosures are but the pledge and earnest of a 
bliss to come. We have often longed for the re- 
turn of some dear one from the spirit-land, and 
have sighed, '^Oh, for a glimpse of that loved 
face ! Oh, for one word from that sweet, hushed 
voice! Oh, for that dear one to come back and 
tell us there is a Heaven ; that there are the throne 
of God, the songs of the angels, the tree of life, 
the redeemed who walk in white amid the radi- 
ance of the Father's glory!" But v/hat is that 
yearning compared with the longing of every be- 
lieving heart to behold the blessed Savior? 

"And every man that hath this hope in him 
(that is, of seeing Jesus as He is) purifieth him- 
self even as He is pure" Not only the present see- 
ing Him, but the future beholding Him. "Thine 



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eyes shall see the King in His beauty/' and what 
unmingled glory shall be revealed in His person. 
But, there is yet, besides the personal manifes- 
tation of the glorified Christ, a revelation of the 
divine essence of pure, essential Deity. When 
the heavens were opened to Stephen, he saw 
Jesus "standing on the right hand of God;" and 
Saint John, describing the beautiful city, said, "I 
saw no temple therein, for the Lord God Al- 
mighty and the Lamb are the temple of it." "The 
throne of God and the Lamb shall be in it." And 
the name of the city from that day shall be, "The 
Lord is there." It is distinctly promised that His 
servants shall see His face. There shall be such 
an unveiling of the uncreated God as no man 
in his unchanged flesh and blood could see and 
live. The vision is not of bodily sight, yet it 
does not fall short of God in His pure essence. 
The pure in heart shall see Him, not by outward 
gaze, for angels and seraphs behold the uncre- 
ated One; they shall see Him less by a gazing 
at, than by living in Him. The vision is by 
union with His nature. 

THE BRIGHTNESS Ot HIS GI,0RY. 

To the eyes of His saints, the presence of the 
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by a manifested glory, but it is the brightness that 
is dark from excess of Hght. No eye of sense 
may ever penetrate it ; it is some power of vision 
higher than sight. The heart shall see Him, and 
this is the most true and perfect light. For, 
manifold as are the objects and modes of per- 
ception, the power of vision is one and invisible. 
It does not originate in the body, but in the liv- 
ing spirit; it does not terminate in the bodily 
organization, but in that spiritual perception. 
It is hardly more an act than a consciousness, so 
that the beholding of created and visible things 
is but a mediate and outward consciousness, while 
the contemplation of the image of the uncreated 
God in purity of heart, is an immediate inward 
sight; a sight more perfect and distinct and true 
than any outward vision by bodily organs; we 
can see purity, knowledge, love but by participa- 
tion. The sight which the perfect shall enjoy 
will all be one perception. The heavenly court, 
the celestial hierarchy, the holiness of saints, the 
glorified manhood of Christ, the vision of God, 
will be seen with the eye-sight of the Spirit. 

Then our whole nature shall see God, not in 
succession, but in one everlasting act of the pure 
in heart. Oh, what rapture is this ! Deeper and 
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the outward sense; the full, deep, overflowmg 
bliss of a soul into which the divine nature is 
pouring itself in a mighty tide of everlasting 
blessedness ! 



CHAPTER XX. 
Thk Sin Against thi: Hoi.y Ghost. 

The phrase, "sin against the Holy Ghost/' is 
not found in the Holy Scriptures. The sin con- 
demned in the Gospel is "blasphemy against the 
Holy Ghost.'' All blasphemy against the Holy 
Ghost is unpardonable sin, but there may be other 
sins against the Holy Ghost which are remissible. 

"Wherefore I say tmto you, All manner of sin 
and blasphemy shall he forgiven unto men: hut 
the hlasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not he 
forgiven unto men. And whosoever speaketh a 
word against the Son of man, it shall he forgiven 
him: hut whosoever speaketh against the Holy 
Ghost, it shall not he forgiven him, neither in this 
world, neither in the world to come/' (Matt. 
12:31,32.) 

Upon this passage Mr. Wesley says: "How 
immense is the number in every nation, through- 
out the Christian world, of those who have been 
more or less distressed on the account of this 

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Scripture ! . . . How is it possible that any one who 
reads his Bible, can one hour remain in doubt 
concerning it, when our Lord Himself has so 
clearly told us what that blasphemy is, 'He that 
blasphemeth against the Holy Ghost hath never 
forgiveness; because they said, He hath an un- 
clean spirit' (Mark 3 : 29, 30.) This, then, and 
this alone, is the blasphemy against the Holy 
Ghost: the saying He hath an imclean spirit; the 
affirming that Christ wrought His miracles by the 
power of an evil spirit ; or, more particularly, that 
'He. cast out devils by Beelzebub the prince of 
devils,' When the person obstinately attributed 
those works to the devil, which he had the fullest 
evidence could be wrought only by the Spirit of 
God; that this and nothing else is the sin against 
the Holy Spirit is evident from the connection 
in this place; and more particularly from Mark 
3 : 28, 30." 

"Many sincere people,'' says Adam Clarke, 
"have been grievously troubled with apprehension 
that they had committed the unpardonable sin; 
but let it be observed that no man who believes 
the divine mission of Jesus Christ can ever com- 
mit this sin; therefore let no man's heart fail 
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very fear of having committed the unpardonable 
sin is proof that one has not. 

With regard to the views men take of this im- 
portant subject, there are some variations; but 
it is well that people should have a wholesome 
fear of speaking contemptuously of God — of the 
Father, of the Son, or of the Holy Ghost. To 
do so in any degree is a dangerous approach to 
an unpardonable sin. 

In his discussion of this subject, Mr. Whedon 
drav/s these conclusions : 

"i. To grieve, to vex, or to resist the Holy 
Spirit does not of itself amount to this 'blasphem- 
ing' of the Holy Spirit. 

"2. This blasphemy of the Holy Ghost is 
not the same as becoming hopeless by continuance 
in sin, or as sinning away the day of grace. It 
is plainly, however long the preparation, one 
heinous act; so heinous in itself as that the Spirit 
becomes, therefore, the sinner's enemy. 'They 
rebelled, and vexed His Holy Spirit, therefore He 
was turned to he their enemy' (Isa. 63 : 10.) 

"3. We cannot judge of this sin as committed 
by another ; we may not know the intention of the 
blasphemy, or the personality against whom it is 
directed ; the Holy Spirit Himself is the only pure, 
wise and sovereign Judge whether the blasphemy, 



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uttered or written, shall be held as blasphemy 
against Himself/' 

Another important Scripture touching this 
subject is found in the following: 

^^Por as touching those who are once enlight- 
ened, and tasted of the heavenly gift, and were 
made partakers of the Holy Ghost, and tasted 
the good word of God, and the powers of the age 
to come, and then fall azvay, it is impossible to 
renew them again unto repentance; seeing they 
crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and 
put Him to an open shame f' (Heb. 6 : 4-6, R. V.) 

In the above Scripture much is said of these 
apostates as once being the saints of God and of 
having received much power, etc. Figure after 
figure is used to show that they had been truly 
sons of God. They had been enlightened, had 
tasted of the heavenly gift, were partakers of the 
Holy Ghost, had tasted of the good Word of 
God and the power of the world to come. Ac- 
cording to these truths, they had reached high at- 
tainments. 

"And then fell away.'' There is no supposi- 
tion about it, as the Authorized Version indicates. 
Having fallen away, they were still ^'crucify- 
ing to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put- 
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were doing this, it was impossible to renew them 
again to repentance. Nothing is said of the "im- 
possibiHty'* in case they should give up sin and 
cease opposing the Gospel of Jesus Christ. 

It is plain to be seen that the Gospel provided 
for their salvation was utterly and continuously 
discarded, and no other means could be found. 

Bishop Wescott on this point says : "The apos- 
tasy described is marked not only by a decisive 
act, but also by a continuous present attitude, a 
hostile relation to Christ Himself and to belief 
in Christ; and thus there is no question of the 
abstract efficacy of the means of grace provided 
through the ordinances of the Church. The state 
of the men themselves is such as to preclude their 
application.'' 

The impossibility does not apply to the apos- 
tate's subjective ability to return to repentance. 
It is possible that those alluded to in this text 
had, by their very continued sin, destroyed within 
themselves all susceptibility to the influences of 
the Holy Spirit, and thereby rendered repentance 
impossible. 

Whedon justly observes : "This does not prove 
that all other apostates become impossible of re- 
covery, any more than our Savior's words (Mark 



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10: 25-27) prove it universally and forever im- 
possible for a rich man to be saved/* 

Again : ''For if we sin wilfully after that zve 
received the knozvledge of the truth, there re- 
maineth no more sacrifice for sins, but a certain 
fearful expectation of judgment, and a fierceness 
of fire which shall devour the adversaries. A 
man who hath set at naught Moses' law died with- 
out compassion, on the word of two or three wit- 
nesses: of how much sorer punishment, think ye, 
shall he be judged worthy, who hath trodden 
under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the 
blood of the covenant, wherewith He zvas sancti- 
fied, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto 
the Spirit of grace?" (Heb. 10: 26-29, R. V.) 
It is evident that the sin alluded to here is that 
of apostasy after regeneration. Not so much one 
great act, as the continual persistence in a life 
of sin. 

The one great sin that renders the apostate's 
doom final and irrevocable is the continuous re- 
jection of the Son of God. There is no other 
sacrifice for sin. The inspired writer does not 
deny the ability of the sinner to repent, nor does 
he set limits to the efficacy of Christ's work for 
the truly penitent. 

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of sin, there is a certain looking for judgment, 
and the fear of the lake of fire, to his soul. 

Thus we see plainly that the* blasphemy against 
the Holy Ghost is attributing the power of God 
to the devil. 

Again, the unpardonable sin may be com- 
mitted by going on persistently in a life of sin, 
and rejecting offered mercy until the heart de- 
stroys in itself the possibility of any recovery 
whatever. One can go on until all susceptibil- 
ity to the influence of the Holy Spirit has been 
destroyed, and be lost forever. 



CHAPTER XXI. 
A Visit to Whiti:i^ie;i.d's Tomb. 

While in our meeting at Lynn, Mass., this 
winter (Dec. 30, 1910), we had the privilege of 
visiting the Rev. George Whitefield's tomb at 
Newburyport, Mass. 

The Old South Church, founded by him in 
the early years of his ministry in this country, 
still stands at it did when it rang with the voice 
of the mighty preacher. The audience room 
downstairs has been altered somewhat, but the 
gallery has remained untouched to this day. We 
saw his Bible and where it was marked at the 
last text from which he ever preached. 

His last sermon was preached at Exeter, New 
Hampshire, Sept. 12, 1770. This was on Satur- 
day night, and after preaching he rode on horse 
back to Newburyport, was stricken with asthma 
in the night and died on Sunday morning as the 
sun rose. 

The crypt is directly underneath the pulpit. 

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We descended the stairs and entered the new 
tomb that has lately been built and viewed what 
is left of the mortal remains of this mighty prince 
of public preachers. The bones are well pre- 
served, though the original coffin is well-nigh 
gone. While kneeling at its side, we remem- 
bered, in reading his life of strenuous labors, 
how for years he swung across the Atlantic, 
through England and America, and pressed the 
battle to the last and died in the harness, a most 
victorious and triumphant death. 

The following is an exact copy of the inscrip- 
tion on his cenotaph, that stands within ten feet 
of the pulpit : 

''This cenotaph is erected with affectionate ven- 
eration to the memory of the Rev. George White- 
field, born at Gloucester, England, Dec. 16, 1714; 
educated at Oxford University; ordained, 1736. 

''In a ministry of thirty-four years, he crossed 
the Atlantic thirteen times, and preached more than 
18,000 sermons. As a soldier of the cross, humble, 
devout, ardent, he put on the whole armor of God, 
preferring the honor of Christ to his own interest, 
repose, reputation, or life. As a Christian orator, 
his deep piety, disinterested zeal and vivid imagi- 
nation gave unexampled energy to his look, action 
and utterance; bold, fervent, pungent aad popular in 
his eloquence, no other uninspired man ever preached 
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of the Gospel by motives so persuasive and awful, and 
with an influence so powerful, to the hearts of his 
hearers. 

''He died of asthma, Sept. 13, 1770; suddenly ex- 
changing his life of unparalleled labors for his eter- 
nal resf 



CHAPTER XXII. 
A Note: o^ Warning. 

We are living in a fast age. Everybody and 
everything seems to be in a mad rush^ and un- 
consciously we take on the spirit of the rapidly 
whirling world around us, until we are nearly 
swept off our feet. And where are we going? 
I answer, To the JUDGMENT! 

The ver}^ foundations of our religion are be- 
ing tested as never before. The reality of relig- 
ious experience, the historic heritage of our be- 
loved Methodism, is denied in the name of a 
modern teaching that knows no Holy of Holies, 
nor experience of holiness for the soul. The 
voice of the Holy Spirit, in the soul of man, is 
so confused with the subtleties of "suggestion'' 
that multitudes of people who are born in church 
homes are without religious convictions. The 
weightier matters of the law are not sounded out 
from our pulpits with authority as of yore. 

We are not precipitating revivals of old-fash- 

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ioned religion, nor rocking the country with 
Heaven-born conviction. The birth-pangs and 
travail of soul which bring sons and daughters 
into the kingdom of God are heard no more in 
many churches. 

There seems to be a dearth in the land of 
preaching THE WORD. Hosea said there 
would be a famine, not of bread nor of water, but 
of hearing of the Word. 

The reason of the famine of hearing the Word 
arises from the fact of it not being preached, for 
if the people heard it more they would want the 
truth and nothing but the truth. The ordinary 
preaching of to-day, and the trend of popular 
preaching, is toward things secular, rather than 
eternal. Complex social questions, memorials to 
uninspired men, sermons to fraternal orders, les- 
sons drawn from the lives and characters of 
statesmen, poets and those who are rich; with 
many other unimportant subjects, usurp the pul- 
pit of to-day and crowd out the weightier subjects 
of the Word. The basic principles of fundamen- 
tal doctrines are heard no more in many pulpits 
over the land. The great cardinal doctrines of 
the Book, such as Conviction, Justification, Re- 
generation, Adoption, Sanctification, Judgment, 
Hell, Heaven^ the Omnipotence of God, His Om- 



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niscience, etc., these, with kindred themes, are 
antiquated, and in many of our largest pulpits, 
are never heard. 

Success and wealth, with fortune, have driven 
us blind, as a nation, to the warning judgments 
of God. Crimes are being committed in the name 
of political and civil liberty, by blind ignorance, 
headlong zeal, frenzied fanaticism and a reckless 
ambition for greed and wealth. 

Our Sabbath is desecrated, our marriage laws 
are ruthlessly trampled upon, and the conscious- 
ness of a living God is going out of the hearts and 
minds of the people, as a whole. The pleasure 
resorts are crowded, as are also the bowling- 
alleys and the pool-rooms, and nothing has so 
corrupted the morals of our youth as the moving 
pictures and vaudeville. The standard of morals 
is being lowered in many quarters. Preachers 
do not preach against the sins of the day, hence 
it is not uncommon for church-members to attend 
the dance, card parties, theaters, and moving- 
picture shows, no matter what kind of scenes are 
being thrown on the canvass. In many cities 
and towns they have become so corrupt that the 
mayors have to put on a strict censorship to keep 
them from putting on films that corrupt or brutal- 
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legalize Sunday baseball, as well as Sunday 
vaudeville and picture shows. 

It is a well-known fact that, in many of our 
large cities, the churches are second to the lodge, 
and in many places are governed and run by 
lodge members who dictate to the bishop who 
shall be the pastor. 

There is an old Book in this country that has 
this antiquated (?) saying in it, ^'This know also, 
that in the last days perilous times shall come. 
For men shall he lovers of their own selves, cov- 
etous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient 
to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural 
affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, inconti- 
nent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, 
traitors, heady, high minded, lovers of pleasure 
more than lovers of God; having a form of godli- 
ness, but denying the power thereof; from such 
turn away.'* 

Now, either that old Book is true and the 
popular worldly church-member is wrong, or else 
they are right, and that old Book is wrong. If 
the Church does not rise up and return to apos- 
tolic faith, methods and practice, she will lose her 
power and respect and fail ingloriously before the 
mighty tide of worldliness that is rolling in upon 
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mealing our whole political and social fabric. 

God help us to be up and doing- while it is 
called to-day, for the night will come when no 
man can work. 

There is great need in the Church of to-day 
and lack of men who fear and reverence God and 
His Word — men who have ballast in their lives, 
determination in their souls, and indomitable 
wills. We have need of churches with "Amen 
corners" in them, and that have the pews built 
far enough apart for the people to kneel down 
when they come to the services. We need the 
old mourner's-bench restored as of yore. If we 
do not move quickly to the call of God, He will 
scourge us with another war, and put us on our 
faces, and we will reap what we have been sow- 
ing. 



CHAPTER XXIII. 
Signs oi^ th^ Time:s. 

Some, among the many things spoken of in 
the Bible as characteristic of the last days, are the 
following : 

First, ''Many false prophets shall arise and 
deceive many" (Matt. 24: 11.) There are 
many antichrists and deceivers in the world to- 
day. The devil, instead of working through men 
of to-day as of yore on the line of infidelity, has 
changed his tactics and has become religious, 
working through them under the guise of relig- 
ion, easing men's consciences and letting them 
slip into Hell by , the multitudes. When were 
there as many false doctrines and "isms'' to at- 
tract people from God and detract from His work, 
as are found in the world to-day ? Few, compar- 
atively, believe in the old-time pow^erful Gospel 
that brings about the supernatural new birth, the 
sanctification of the soul, the doctrine of a bot- 
tomless Hell, and the second advent of our Lord, 

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etc., etc. Unnumbered thousands of popular 
church-members of this age are deceived, deny- 
ing the power of God. From such the Bible tells 
us to turn away. 

Take the twelfth verse of this same chapter, 
and it says that ^'because iniquity shall abound, 
the love of many shall wax cold/' On every hand 
we see people who were once out and out for God, 
who have cooled off, and do not preach the doc- 
trine as they did at one time, and in many in- 
stances they have quit altogether. In many of 
our so-called Holiness meetings the doctrine of 
holiness as a second work of grace is not stressed, 
and they do not deserve the name. Many preach- 
ers allude to it and sometimes testify to it, but 
when it comes to clearly teaching the doctrine 
and offering the altar and calling for seekers to 
come up and seek sanctification definitely, they 
are not there. In the place of using Bible terms 
and calling it "sanctification," they call it, "get- 
ting a clean heart," "power for service," "the 
baptism of the Holy Ghost," "a fresh anoint- 
ing," •etc. 

In many reports of late, I have noticed where 
preachers reported so many converted, but no 
sanctifications. Now there might possibly be an 
exception to the rule in some cases, but as a rule 



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where the preacher is a sanctified man (or the 
evangehst either, for that matter), he will lead 
some into the experience of entire sanctification 
in a ten days' or two weeks' meeting, and he 
will not hesitate to tell it, either. 

Of course, some of the above names that I 
have named are scriptural and are all right to 
use, but if you will notice, the men who get peo- 
ple into the experience of sanctification are the 
men who are not afraid of the word SANCTIFI- 
CATION. This is the word that Jesus used. 
He said, ''If any man is ashamed of Me or My 
words, I also will he ashamed of him before My 
Father and His holy angels/' 

^'Because iniquity shall abound, the love of 
many shall wax cold.'' Iniquity and worldliness 
are abounding on every hand. We must watch, 
or we will cool off. There is a reproach that goes 
with real Bible salvation, and if \\t do not watch, 
we will unconsciously cool off rather than suffer 
the reproach that accompanies this old-fashioned 
Gospel. 

They said that Jesus our Lord had a devil. 
They put Him on the cross, and murdered His 
apostles, and during the Reformation period they 
killed the fathers as they had done the prophets, 
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in Christ Jesus SHALL suffer persecution." One 
will not have to hunt up persecution or do some 
outlandish thing that is out of all reason, just to 
bring on the issue; but just you LIVE GODLY 
IN CHRIST JESUS, and you will stir the ani- 
mosity of Hell. The devil hates a holy man or 
v/oman. He is still in the holiness-fighting busi- 
ness. Watch, brother, lest your love cools off. 
The tendency of the age is to compromise. 
Preachers begin by compromising in their preach- 
ing, the people by compromising in their testi- 
mony. The sin of Israel always was that they 
wanted to be like the nations around them. The 
worldly church of to-day wants us to come down 
where it is, rather than for it to come up where 
w^e are. 

Brother, keep sweet and firm, and testify and 
preach on all suitable occasions, and do not turn 
aside for anything or anybody. Be firm in sweet- 
ness, and sweet in firmness. ^%et no man take 
thy crown" Be faithful unto death, and you 
will receive a crown of life. The day is coming, 
and it is not far distant, when you will be glad 
you stood amid the scoffs and jeers of this cold, 
heartless world. If they treated your Lord thus, 
you may be sure they will do you the same way, 
if you successfully represent Him. 



CHAPTER XXIV. 
God's Ri:mkdy i^or Sin. 

Eradication is God's only remedy for sin. 
According to Mr. Webster, the word means, "the 
act of plucking up by the roots; extirpation; 
excision; total destruction,'' etc. 

This is the only absolute cure for sin. All 
other so-called remedies seek no permanent cure, 
but simply seek to alleviate. A grain of corn 
cannot grow until it is planted, but even then 
it cannot grow the weeds (that are foreign to it) 
out; they must be removed. So when the corn- 
life that is planted in the heart in regeneration 
begins to grow, the only remedy for the weeds of 
carnality (that are left in the heart) is to remove 
them. That is God's order. Some of the Bible 
terms for the removal of sin are, "taken away," 
"crucified," "being made free from sin," "de- 
stroyed," etc., etc. 

The deliverance from sin that God brings to 
this world is not a gradual process, but an instan- 

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taneous work that He Himself does ; but growth 
in that grace, or state, is gradual, and as the corn 
can grow faster and better after the weeds are 
removed, so the Christian can grow faster and 
better when the weeds of carnality are removed. 

When it comes to dealing with sin and its re- 
moval from the heart, we find that there are no 
words in the Bible that even hint at the idea that 
sin is gotten rid of by anything that man can do ; 
but always the verbs are in the aorist tense, and 
hold forth the thought of an instantaneous work, 
and something that God does. 

The destruction of sin in the soul, and the 
growth of holiness, are two distinct and separate 
things. Sanctification implies both the death of 
sin and the life of righteousness; and as to the 
former part of it, it may be attained at once ; but 
in relation to the latter part, the life of righteous- 
ness, it is entirely progressive. Where many 
good people make a mistake is trying to live sanc- 
tified before the work is done in the heart. Just 
as a sinner cannot live a Christian life before he 
is born from above, so a Christian cannot live 
a sanctified life until he is sanctified from above. 
Sanctification is not attained by any good works 
we may do, but is obtained from God, and then 



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we are fitted to do good works and to live the life 
that our conscience calls for. 

God does not say do holy acts, but He does 
command us to be holy. He is more concerned 
about what I am, than what I do. He knows 
that if I am all right in my heart, I will do right. 

Some people say that we cannot be delivered 
from our bent to sinning in this world. They do 
not believe God. In Romans 6 : 22, we read, 
''And being made free from sin;" and in Matthew 
5:8, we read, ''Blessed are the pnre in heart." 
To be free from sin and to have a pure heart are 
what God has promised in His Word. • 

Preaching the doctrine of instantaneous sanc- 
tification was a peculiarity of the early Methodist 
preachers. They preached it clearly, distinctly, 
and powerfully everywhere they went. Bishop 
Peck says, "But there are reasons why holiness is 
not more faithfully preached. It is hard to raise 
the stream higher than the fountain. It is hard 
to preach what we have never experienced, and 
the fear of reproach, 'Physician, heal thyself,' we 
doubt not, hinders many of us from charging 
home upon the members of the churches their 
remaining corruptions, their neglect of the Blood 
that 'cleanseth from all sin' and their exposure 
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can thus see how it is that we have so Httle preach- 
ing on the subject of hohness. The want of ex- 
perience renders it unpleasant to do it, and hard 
to do it truthfully and eifectually." (''Central 
Idea," p. Z76.) 

Dr. Nathan Bangs, in his history of the Meth- 
odist Episcopal Church, says : "The doctrine more 
especially urged upon believers (in early Method- 
ism) was that of sanctification, or holiness of 
heart and life, and this was pressed upon them as 
their present privilege, depending for its accom- 
plishment nozv on the faithfulness of God, who 
had promised it. It was this baptism of the Holy 
Ghost which fired and filled the hearts of God's 
ministers at that time." 

With regard to the instantaneous work of 
sanctification in his day, Mr. Wesley wrote, "I 
hope Brother C. is not ashamed to preach full 
salvation, receivable now by faith. This is the 
word which God will always bless, and which the 
devil peculiarly hates; therefore he is constantly 
stirring up both his own children and the weak 
children of God against it." 

It does not stir the devil, nor carnality either, 
very much, when we teach that sanctification is 
something that death, or growth, or works may 
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God and teach that it is something that God does 
in the heart of the believer, then the same old 
opposition that has been against t'his precious Bi- 
ble truth down through the ages, is immediately 
aroused, and the fight is on. 



CHAPTER XXV. 

''The: Winds WerK Contrary/' 

(Acts 27:4.) 

How suggestive the above caption, of all our 
lives. There is no life but that encounters ad- 
verse and "contrary winds.'' 

We may wish to move in a certain channel, 
and make our plans that way, and get everything 
arranged, and lo! God's compass points in an- 
other direction. Do not take it to heart, do not 
worry. God's compass never varies, never fails; 
it always points in the right direction. 

Work the steering gear of your soul until you 
head in the right channel following the needle's 
track, and though you may plow counter and 
crosswise to your own wishes, desires, feelings 
and friends, nevertheless it yields the peaceable 
fruits of righteousness and the desired haven will 
be reached. 

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no storms to encounter, we could never enjoy a 
placid sea. 

This is the workshop of the universe, where 
the immortal essences are wrought out; where 
the rough hewing and forging take place. 

The very things that Satan may throw in our 
path to check us, should be stepping-stones to 
higher experiences. 

At times it may look to us as though God has 
turned this world over, as a great plowfield, for 
Ruin to try her plow in, with the Devil turned 
loose, and Sin holding high carnival, and Hell 
jubilant for the on-coming desolation of the trib- 
ulation period, when the world shall be a great 
graveyard, Golgotha with wide-open gates, 
death's great skeleton warehouse; yet, midst it 
all, God has a few who hold to the compass and 
will not be swerved to the right or left. They 
are the "invincibles.'' 

Life's sea may be perilous and the way dark, 
but on they go. Friends may turn traitors, times 
and seasons change, the dogs of Hell may hound 
their tracks, and though surrounded by the clat- 
ter and the clash and bedlam of incarnate devils 
of earth and Hell, combined with sickness, sor- 
row, sword, pestilence and famine blowing mal- 
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And it is from this storm-tossed sea that God is 
stringing harps for the heavenHes. They may be 
strung and keyed amid thunderings and light- 
nings, tornadoes and tempests, yet they will rise 
to the symphonies of Heaven. 

This world is the nursery and greenhouse 
from which will be transplanted to everlasting 
hills the trees of righteousness. Here is where 
the cedars are hewed, and the marble is chisled 
for the upper temple. These are quarry-lands 
of the New Jerusalem building. From this world 
the cedars will be transplanted to the Lebanon 
hills of eternity. 

Press on, weary soul; though tried and tem- 
pest-tossed, the voyage will soon be over. The 
spires of the Eternal City will soon be in view. 
The signal-gun of welcome is heard in the dis- 
tance, the field-glass of faith will bring the har- 
bor in full view, and you will be home at last ! 



REDEEMED BY THE BLOOD 

Before the world was made, 
Or e'er the sun did shine, 

God planned the great crusade 
'Gainst sin for all mankind. 

"We're not redeemed with gold. 
But with the precious Blood; 

It snaps the bands that hold 
The sinner 'way from God. 

It sanctifies the soul, 

And cleanses every stain; 
It makes us fully whole, 

It lifts to Heaven's plane. 

The blood of Christ avails, 

The soul is satified; 
Our refuge when assailed, 

Our rest for faith when tried. 

Through it we overcome, 

And reach our home on high, 

"Where, 'round the great white throne, 
We'll praise the Lamb that died. 

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APPENDIX 

^^And the wicked shall be turned into Hell, 
and all the nations that forget God/' 

If the Bible means anything at all, it means 
every word it says. If every word of this Book 
is not true, there is not one word of it true, and 
the same God and the same Bible that tell us 
of Heaven, that beautiful place, where people go 
who obey God, also tell us of an awful Hell 
where people who do not obey Him, will ble 
damned forever. Heaven and Hell are the two 
greatest extremes imaginable — one is light and 
the other is darkness; one is joy and the other 
is sorrow; one is happiness and the other pain. 
It is vice versa, what one is, the other is not. 
No one can be going to Heaven and to Hell 
at the same time. We are walking in light or 
darkness, we are working for weal or for woe, 
the die has been cast, we are going one way or 
the other, and to-night we have made another 

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day's journey towards either Heaven or Hell. 

Everybody knows there is a Heaven, but 
everybody does not realize what Heaven is going 
to be. Everybody must know there is a Hell, 
but everybody does not realize what it is. There 
are three words in the Bible which mean Hell. 
The Hebrew word sheol, which means to put out 
of sight, to put away from view, and the Greek 
word tartarus, which means to fasten, to bind, 
to hold fast, to hold as if fastened to it. Hell is 
the penitentiary of the universe. The peniten- 
tiary of the universe is to be turned into a lake 
of fire after the Judgment. 

Gehenna, also meaning Hell, is the word that 
Jesus coined and its name was derived from the 
sons of Hinnom who were once saved, who once 
knew God, but backslid and went into gross idol- 
atry. They erected a great idol, Moloch, and in 
this idol's hands was a continual fire, and men 
and women laid their children in its arms and 
burned them alive. This went on and on for 
years until the name Hinnom was repulsive to 
the mind. Afterwards the beasts of Jerusalem 
were taken there and burned, and history tells 
us that criminals were also burned there. In 
Jesus' time this was used to suggest death. Je- 
sus Christ wanted to impress on our minds, and 



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God in Heaven, a great loving Father has done 
all He could to show us what Hell really is and 
to keep us out of it. Jesus in speaking of it, 
uses this word, gehenna, which meanes flames. 
He says in Matthew 5 : 22, '''Whosoever shall 
say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of HELL 
FIRE." "It is more profitable for one of thy 
members to perish than that thy whole body 
should be cast into Hell." 

When men repeat a thing, it becomes less 
effective, but when God repeats a thing, He 
emphasizes and augments its meaning, and from 
the very fact that God speaks so many times in 
the Bible of Hell, the bottomless pit, and the 
lake of fire, is enough to paralyze the mind and 
freeze the blood. If God's Word is true, and 
God cannot lie, there must be HELL FIRE. 
Matthew 2:41: "Then shall He say unto them 
on His left hand. Depart from Me, ye cursed, 
into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and 
his angels." He says that at the end of the 
age He will send His angels, and they which do 
wickedly shall be cast into the furnace of fire, 
"and there shall be weeping and wailing and 
gnashing of teeth." A furnace is a place where 
the fire is heated more than to a common flame. 
I have been in the gas belt of Indiana and vis- 



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ited the glass works; have seen them turn into 
it the white sand and hold it for days and days, 
until this sand was molten like wax. 

I used to fire an engine and we would put in 
the coal until the fire burned to a white heat and 
the flames danced inside. I could give you a word 
picture to-night of picking up a man alive and 
pitching him into that white heated furnace. 
For a short time he squirms and screams with 
the torture, but after awhile he does not move 
— it is all over. I could paint word pictures that 
are worse than that. It would be awful if you 
had to behold a man cast into a furnace of 
natural fire. You would not want to eat and 
could not sleep for days and days. Why do I 
say that? I have seen men killed on the road. 
I did not want to eat for days. It was AW- 
FUL. But brother, sister, if you were the man, 
if you were the woman who was to be picked up 
alive and burned, it would be more awful than 
for you to stand up and see it done. 

So I want to tell you of Hell. But you can- 
not begin to comprehend it, though you may 
have some apprehension of it. "Eye hath not 
seen, nor* ear heard, neither have entered into the 
heart of man, the things which the Lord hath 
prepared for them that love Him." No man 



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naturally can understand what Heaven is, so no 
man can understand the burning of an awful 
brimstone Hell until he enters there himself. I 
say there shall be "wailing and gnashing of 
teeth/' 

A wail is the scream of a man when there 
is no hope for him. Death cuts a man's hopes. 
There are burnings without escape. There shall 
be wailing: God says it. After death there will 
be an awful Hell of pain and suffering; an aw- 
full Hell. 

I have seen men killed on the road, and have 
heard them say, "O God, MY LOST SOUL! 
Is there nobody to pray?'' That means that they 
were facing God and were about to slip into Hell. 
See that ship on the ocean ; in five minutes she is 
to go down. Everybody knows she is going 
down. The dancing, swearing and card-play- 
ing are stopped now. People are facing death and 
Hell. If you had been in the East River dis- 
aster, when five hundred people perished last 
week, I imagine you could have heard the 
screams of souls trying to seek God. If you had 
been on that ill-fated vessel and had to have 
either perished in the flames or lost your life in 
the deep, it would have seemed real to you. If 
you could have stepped into the homes in New 



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York City and heard the groans and cries over 
lost loved ones, it would have seemed real to you. 

God, show this congregation that there is a 
time when, if unsaved, we will have to go and 
meet an angry God ! I have stood in large cities 
and seen men and women stand in the sky- 
scraper buildings and pray and scream and wail 
for help, when numbers of engines were at work 
and streams of water flying, but they had to go 
down in the flames. On a cold winter's night, 

1 have seen men and women in the seventh and 
eighth stories of a burning building, crying for 
help, only to perish in the flames or jump from 
the windows and burst their bodies on the pave- 
ments below. They had to meet the final issue. 

I remember one poor boy who worked on the 
road where I worked. I went to see him and 
as I approached the house, I heard him scream- 
ing, and I shuddered. I went in and he said, 
''Brother Ed, I want you to pray for me, I have 
got to meet God before morning." I dropped 
on my knees on one side of the bed, his uncle 
on the other, and we prayed, but it was no use, 
for he had wasted his Hfe, had gone through the 
world burning incense on the altar of lust, and 
he went forth to meet his God unprepared. 

Three years ago when the Atlantic coast was 



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strewn with bodies of men and women who were 
burned alive in their state rooms, they were 
found with clenched teeth, and clenched fists, 
as though they had died in AWFUL suffering. 
Brother, wake up to the fact that God's Word is 
true. 

Mark 9 : 48, 49. What does it mean ? A 
salty Hell, a salty flame that cannot be quenched, 
a fire never to be extinguished, a fire that will 
burn FOREVER, "where their worm dieth not 
and the fire is not quenched/' Some say I do 
not believe in Hell fire, but God's Word is true, 
brother, and if it v^ere only used figuratively 
in the Bible, the figure would be only a faint idea 
of the awful reality. I hold in my hand a little 
match. I can realize there is real fire within 
this match more than I realize it now, if I strike 
the match. I tell you there is fire in that match 
and if you tell me it is only figurative fire, I do 
not want to handle real fire. I strike the match, 
and you say, Does figurative fire burn? I say 
yes, and I put my hand into that little flame and 
I know it more than I knew it before I struck 
the match. 

Every man in this presence to-night knows 
there is a Hell, if he believes God, but he will 
never realize it now like he will when he gets 



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there. I want to tell you that in eternity's night, 
fire will burn men and women forever. "And 
the devil that deceived them was cast into the 
LAKE OF FIRE AND BRIMSTONE, where 
the beast and the false prophet are, and shall 
be TORMENTED DAY and NIGHT, FOR 
EVER and EVER." (Rev. 20: 10.) 

The same word that is used to describe the 
perpetuity of Heaven is used to describe the 
longevity of Hell. Hell will last as long as God 
lasts, and will be real just as long as God is real. 
I verily believe that there is a lake of fire. It 
has its topography. It is a place of torment. It 
is just the opposite of Heaven. 

The man who is saved in Heaven will be 
saved, soul, body and spirit ; the whole triple man 
will be saved in Heaven; or if he be lost, he will 
suffer in his soul, he will suffer in his body and 
he will suffer in his spirit in Hell. The dividing 
time is coming. The great day will be when 
the great God of the universe will lay righteous- 
ness to the plummet, and will divide the sheep 
from the goats. 

"Marvel not at this; for the hour is coming, 
in which all that are in their graves shall hear 
His voice. And shall come forth, they that have 
done good, unto the resurrection of LIFE; and 



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they that have done evil, unto the resurrection 
of DAMNATION/' (John 5: 28, 29.) 

Here are the two classes; they are brought 
face to face. One crowd goes one way, and the 
other, the other way. He will say to those on 
the right hand, "Come, ye blessed of My Father, 
inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the 
foundation of the world." To those on the left 
hand, He will say, "Depart, I never knew you," 
and they will be cast into the lake of fire, "pre- 
pared for the devil and his angels," and those 
on the right will go away into EVERLASTING 
LIFE, and those on the left to EVERLASTING 
PUNISHMENT. 

I say to-night that if one tittle of this Word 
fails the whole thing will go to destruction. We 
come to this conclusion. If there is a literal 
Hell, a place of real burning, then you and I 
ought to pray as we never prayed before. Some- 
body's children will go down into a bottomless 
Hell to remain throughout all the ages of an 
endless eternity. 

In Heaven, there is joy ; in Hell, there is any- 
thing but joy; in Heaven, there is law; in Hell, 
there is anything but law; there is anarchy. If 
a man gets into Heaven, he will get in, soul, 
body, and spirit; if he goes to Hell, it will be the 



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same way. There are degrees in Heaven. Paul 
was caught up to the third Heaven. Then there 
are degrees in Hell, for my Bible tells of how 
much sorer burnings will be reserved for those 
who have trampled the Word of God under their 
feet. There will be some in the black corners 
of Hell capacitated to suffer more than others. 
If a man just gets into Heaven, he will be in 
Heaven and he will enjoy it so far as he is ca- 
pacitated, as much as the greatest archangel will 
enjoy it. If he is in Hell, he will suffer in pro- 
portion to his capacity as much as the blackest- 
winged angel of the bottomless pit. In Hell they 
go down and down, like a wanderer in the quick- 
sand, and as they sink lower and lower, down 
and down, they will become more like the arch- 
fiends of Hell. On the other hand, the saints 
of God will go up and up and become more like 
God and will have more affinity for the great 
heart love of God. 

THERE IS A HELL! There is an AW- 
FUL HELL! God tells us the nature of it. 
''They shall drink of the wine of the wrath of 
God." Brother, I do not know what that means, 
and I do not want to know. I know that when 
the wrath of God is poured out, blood re- 
lations will be forever obliterated, and whoever 



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is God's enemy in that day will be your enemy, 
even if it is your tenderest tie on earth. 

It is a place where men and women will stand 
in the midnight gloom in the corridors of Hell, 
and will gnaw their tongues for pain and will 
have no rest day or night. 

The awfulness of the drunkard's Hell will be 
that the appetite for liquor will gnaw at his soul, 
but it can never be quenched and will sink him 
deeper and deeper. The cigarette fiend's Hell 
will be: he will crave to smoke, long to smoke, 
famish for a smoke, but there is nothing to 
smoke but himself. The harlot's Hell will be 
that she will go staggering through the streets 
of Hell with a body full of sores and diseases, 
begging to die, but never dying. Yes, my Bible 
says they will have ''sores" and will curse God. 
Yes, sir! There will be sores in Hell, for my 
Bible says so. (Rev. 16: 10, 11.) 

If people do not have sin removed, they will 
have to be banished to where the devil and his 
angels are. Not only sin, but the effect of sin 
will be there. The harlot takes the revolver to 
blow her brains out, and says, "I will drown my 
troubles." No, you won't ! You will plunge into 
them and never get out. You say, "I do not be- 
lieve a person has a body in Hell." I have quoted 



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Scripture to prove it. When Jesus Christ rose 
from the dead He walked on this earth forty 
days. The disciples did not believe it, and He 
said, "Thomas, put your fingers into the nail- 
prints, and thrust your hand into My side;" and 
to prove that His body was tangible and real, 
He broiled fish and ate it, and a few hours 
later, God reversed the order, and He went up. 
Brother, that same Jesus who went up, we will 
see in His real body. While you may not see 
Him to-night with your naked eye, you will see 
Him. You may not see Hell with the naked eye, 
but you will see it, if you do not repent of your 
sins and get right with God. 

Our body is the house we live in. The soul 
is that which likes and dislikes and is easily 
moved to tears. Spirit is that by which you can 
'Sit here and at the same time swing around the 
world. We have already been to New York 
City, to East River, have been up to Heaven, 
and down to Hell. We will rise to take on 
these bodies. What they want now they will 
want hereafter. 

A lost soul in Hell can only be like the hyena 
which paces up and down its cage and its lair, 
which it was not made to go in, but man puts 
it in that unnatural thing and it walks back and 



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forth, yelling and panting, and longing for de- 
liverance. So the lost soul, like the hyena in 
its cage, will walk and weep and wail in Hell 
forever. There will be no release, no rest, no 
light, no hope, nothing but gloom, misery and 
the blackest darkness forever and ever. There 
is a deep vacuum in that soul that will last as 
long as God lasts. It was NEVER MADE FOR 
HELL. God never meant for it to be there! 
NEVER! Slighted mercy, and the white- 
winged angel of mercy is gone forever, and I 
am in Hell. O my God! Is it possible that an 
immortal spirit, of its own volition, will take its 
place in Hell? 

A man will suffer in his body in Hell; he 
will have sores ; his soul will suffer ; he will have 
regrets and dark forebodings. It was said to 
one man who went to Hell, "Son, remember." 
They will remember every sermon they heard 
preached. The spirit, the mind will suffer 
through the ear and through the memory. The 
avenues and channels to man's immortal spirit 
are innumerable. 

We live in an age of compromise. All the 
damning doctrines that Hell can get up are spued 
out at Boston and she is flooding this world; 
one thing is that of taking the cardinal doc- 



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trines out of this blessed Book, and another is 
that there is no Hell. I know there is a Hell. I 
KNOW there is a Hell because God's Word 
says so. Not simply because God says there is 
a Hell, is there one ; but because there is one, He 
tells you and me about it. He asks, "Who 
among you shall dwell in everlasting burnings ?" 
Lord, write this on our hearts with a pen of fire ! 
I would know there was a Hell if there was no 
Bible on earth. Why? Because I have seen 
men die and go there. A man in southern Illi- 
nois, heard me preach and he said, "If what that 
man is talking about is so, I am not fit to die." 
He made a resolve to get saved, but at five o'clock 
he died. His wife and children locked them- 
selves out of the house, as they could not stand 
the sight. A strange man who had never seen 
a man die went in, and he said the man cursed 
and prayed, cursed God and tore his hair, and 
in this condition he died. That man who wit- 
nessed it came to me and said, "Brother Ferger- 
son, if God will forgive me for seeing that man 
die, I will never see another one." 

"He that being often reproved hardeneth his 
neck shall suddenly be destroyed; and that with- 
out remedy." 

If there is anyone here who has been re- 



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proved once or twice, that Scripture may not be 
for you. If there is any one under this canvas 
v^ho has been reproved only a few times, that 
may not be for you, but the days are hastening, 
they are Hke a weaver's shuttle, and you do not 
know what a day may bring forth. My brother, 
are you sure that you will escape Hell? You 
will not only be in Hell, but you will be LOST 
in Hell FOREVER! 

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